Bangladesh vs. India.
A packed stadium in England on a beautiful summer day, ready for a cracking game.
I spot several fans donning the cricket jerseys of the national teams.
But we aren't here for a cricket match.
This is the tale of an unlikely football encounter between Bangladesh and India at Filbert Street, the home of Leicester City before they moved to the King Power Stadium.
A year ago in England, Bangladesh had made their first-ever appearance at a Cricket World Cup, registering a historic victory over rivals Pakistan. This was a nation that was starting to see football lose its stronghold to cricket as the most popular sport. But football still had a large following, and the national team was among the top teams in South Asia.
Bangladesh had seen off India in the semis at the 1999 South Asian Games in Nepal and eventually went on to win the gold medal. The two teams also locked horns that year during the 2000 AFC Asian Cup qualifiers in Abu Dhabi and drew 2-2 in an entertaining encounter.
And when the 1999 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Gold Cup took place, Bangladesh found themselves in the same group as India and played out a goalless draw, and met again in the final, where they lost 2-0. The star of the show that night was Baichung Bhutia, who scored the second goal to seal the win.
Bhutia was named the tournament's most valuable player and was by far the biggest star in Indian football at the time. He was still playing his club football in East Bengal in Kolkata but was attracting offers from clubs in Europe. He had unsuccessful trials at Aston Villa and Fulham but eventually struck gold when he went to English second division side Bury for a trial. During his two trial games there, he scored five goals, enough to impress then-manager Neil Warnock and make history by becoming the first Indian to play for an English club.
Following Bhutia's move to Bury in the summer of 1999, which generated plenty of buzz in India and the rest of South Asia, the people who worked behind the scenes on the transfer wanted to leverage the hype and envisioned the idea of hosting the Indian national football team in England for a few friendly matches the following summer.
In early 2000, the organisers managed to secure friendlies for India against two English club sides for the summer, but they wanted to schedule one international encounter, ideally against a South Asian rival, on English soil as part of the tour.
Unlike in cricket, where Pakistan is India's biggest rival, India's rivalry in football at the time was bigger with Bangladesh than with any other nation from the region. Discussions with the Bangladesh Football Federation began soon after, and although it took a while, everything was finally set for India and Bangladesh to tour England that summer. The South Asian derby was billed as the main highlight of the tour.
