At a time of economic duress, partly related to the country's deepening insecurity, this will have repercussions far beyond cricket.

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Some locals say the economic duress has polarized the electorate.

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The Nazis rose to power on the heels of the much worse economic duress and massive unemployment in the 1930s, a global Depression that hit Germany particularly hard and one that worldwide austerity measures are now widely believed to have caused.

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