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T20 World Cup 2024: New York to host India vs Pakistan marquee clash

New York will host the marquee India vs Pakistan clash of the 2024 T20 World Cup, the Guardian has reported. USA are co-hosting the T20 World Cup with the West Indies scheduled to be held in June. As per the reports, the match will be played in a pop-up stadium on the outskirts of the New York. A 34,000-seated temporary stadium will be constructed for the tournament in New York. The match is being played in the New York becasue as per the latest census data, around 7,11,000 Indian and about 1,00,000 people of Pakistani origin live in the New York. The time difference between Delhi and New York is 10-and-a-half-hours but some of the India matches will be scheduled to serve the Indian television audiences. Only three venues will be used in the US and those are entral Broward Park in Flo...
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Cricket World Cup: Pakistani presenter Zainab Abbas apologises to Indians for disparaging tweets

Pakistan’s Zainab Abbas, who was in India until recently as part of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) digital team, has clarified her abrupt departure to Pakistan and apologised to Indians for her old social media comments. With a few days of the Cricket World Cup starting, Zainab exited India on Monday. This led to rumours that she was deported or was sent back by her employers. A media report in Pakistani newspaper Dawn said that there was a “complaint filed in New Delhi by a lawyer, who accused her of posting derogatory tweets targeting the Hindu faith in the past.” Click here to follow all the action from the Cricket World Cup “I was neither asked to leave nor was I deported,” she wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “However, I felt intimidated and scared by...
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India versus Pakistan: Art director with Lagaan, Jawan experience is in-charge of pre-game show at Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad: The Pakistan team hasn’t arrived yet and the Indians have the day off but there is a team at the stadium in the middle of a drill that is being timed.It’s a charged atmosphere where the men are being pushed to do some heavy lifting as their supervisor stares at a watch while shouting at the top of his voice. For a India vs Pakistan game nothing is left to chance, even those involved in the logistics of the pre-game entertainment are following a process and believe in repetition to perfect their routine. Click here to follow all the action from the Cricket World Cup A temporary 40×36 metre stage needs to be dismantled and carried from the training lawns to the storage space under the stadium roof. The 100-odd strong men have 9 minutes to complete their task, they finish in 4. ...
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Asia Cup 2023: Super Four, final matches to stay in Colombo

A view of covers on the pitch and outfield of the ground after rain interrupts play during the match between India and Nepal in the Asia Cup 2023, at Pallekele. | Photo Credit: ANI The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) on September 5 decided to keep the Asia Cup Super 4 and final matches in Colombo itself as the weather in the Sri Lankan capital has shown signs of improvement.It has been speculated over the last few days that the Super 4 and final games of the Asia Cup could be shifted to Hambantota after heavy rains lashed Colombo.The PTI has been informed that the ACC held parleys with Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), hosts Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the official broadcaster before arriving at the decision to keep the matches in Colombo itself.The broadcaster too has explained the difficulti...
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Asia Cup: Gautam Gambhir says he’s against players being friendly with rivals during matches

World Cup winner Gautam Gambhir has said that he is against cricketers displaying too much camaraderie on the field with players of the rival team in the middle of games. Gambhir’s comments came during the India vs Pakistan game. The southpaw, who was part of the Indian cricket team which won the 2011 Cricket World Cup, blamed franchise cricket as one of the reasons why cricket games these days don’t have too much aggression. “When you play on the field for your national team, you must leave the friendship outside the boundary ropes. Game face hona zaroori hai. Dosti bahaar rehni chahiye. There has to be an aggression in the eyes of both sets of players. You can be as friendly as you want after those six or seven hours of cricket. Those hours are very important, because you’re not jus...
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Ishan Kishan: From honing his cricket in MS Dhoni’s neighbourhood in Ranchi to starring against Pakistan

“Kahaan khel rahe ho? (Where are you batting),” Satyam Kumar texted his friend Ishan Kishan a day before India’s match against Pakistan. The reply from Ishan was “Neeche shayad paanch pe (Down the order maybe at No 5). Ishan’s reply prompted Satyam to call his friend and his former roommate at Sports Authority of India (SAIL) hostel in Ranchi, to encourage him since he was playing out of his position.“Fight karenge bhaiya… scoring against Pakistan at No 5 might prove to be a game-changer for me,” Ishan told Satyam over the phone from Kandy.“He has always been a very positive boy. I have known him for the past 13 years. Ishan, Monu Kumar (Jharkhand seamer) and myself, we have spent so much time together. I was the one who taught him how to cook Maggi,” laughs Satyam. Ishan was 12 when he...
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An Island town stops to watch India and Pakistan clash today

PALLEKELE IS a small, quiet town, just a half-an-hour’s drive from Kandy, the second largest city in Sri Lanka dotted with tea plantations. The locale is so quiet that even the chirp of a bird could wake you up in the morning. Perched on the hillside, tourists flock here to unwind and soak in the greenery, with a cup of tea or a swig of arrack with ginger ale by their side. But since Friday morning, the town, with a population of only 1,11,701, has been buzzing, witnessing something new, with the inflow of cricket tourists from the Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo, bringing some parts of the town to a standstill. The occasion thus is set for the first of the five potential encounters in the next two months, from Asia Cup to the World Cup, between rivals India and Pakistan o...
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India-Pak World Cup game in Ahmedabad: Date to change, not venue: Jay Shah

The date for the India versus Pakistan encounter at the upcoming Cricket World Cup will change but the venue for the crunch clash will still be Ahmedabad, BCCI secretary Jay Shah announced on Thursday. The Indian Express had reported on Wednesday that the India-Pakistan World Cup clash was likely to be rescheduled from October 15 as it clashed with the first day of Navratri. Since Navratri festival is celebrated with great pomp and with mass participation at garba nights across Gujarat, security agencies had reportedly advised the BCCI to tweak the itinerary. Late last month, when the ICC announced the World Cup schedule, the nearly 1-lakh-capacity Narendra Modi Stadium got four marquee games – the tournament opener between New Zealand and England, India vs Pakistan, England vs Austra...