Given that the source for it's front page story that President Pervez Musharraf is to bowl a symbolic over to Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is one lirpA looF, however, fans should probably hit the yarn for six.

"Cricket is the single-most adhesive glue that can bring together India and Pakistan and this would be the most logical culmination. A gesture of course, but a profoundly effective one," looF of the foreign ministry said.

The report said the idea originated when officials on both sides wondered how best to leverage the goodwill being generated on both sides of the border by India's first full cricket tour of Pakistan in almost 15 years.

Vajpayee at age 79 may find it more difficult to wield the willow than Musharraf, a fit military man, will find bowling bouncers and googlies to his counterpart, it added.

"It is absolutely confirmed by both Islamabad and New Delhi. If Vajpayee could take a bus to Lahore a few years ago, why can't he walk to the crease at Gaddafi Stadium?" looF said, referring to a 1999 peace initiative by the Indian leader.