Saturday, October 14, 2023. Is it the most important day in Indian sporting history? In Ahmedabad, with a population of eight million, in the west of the country, fans gather in front of the largest cricket stadium in the world, the Narendra Modi Stadium. Cricket World Cup, India vs Pakistan. Over 130,000 – almost exclusively Indians, hardly any Pakistanis have received a visa – will witness India’s unchallenged victory here, in the “most longed-for game of the World Cup”, the “greatest rivalry in sport”.
The feverish headlines in all caps – MOST ANTICIPATED WORLD CUP MATCH, BIGGEST RIVALRY – are banded across television screens across India in the morning. Terror against Israel? Bombs on Gaza? War in Ukraine? CNN News 18, the Indian branch of the news channel, lets experts have their say. But not about world politics. Cricket pundits are tuned in from New Delhi and Lahore. For hours.
2023-10-22 13:34:54
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