2023 ICC Cricket World Cup (October/November) - India

[wasteyouryouth]

This feels like the 2011 World Cup Quarter Final when Tharanga and Dilshan knocked England out

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

This feels like a how associates are outshining full members kind of game, thrashing at its finest. New Zealand winning the cup!

 

[LiveLoveABD]

Want to see which captain will have the guts to put a bat pad for Conway! He has a weakness wherein he plonks his front foot forward and just looks to nurdle the ball to the on side with an almost dead bat.

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

Forget Babar, Kohli, we have the new Sachin Ravindra Jadeja... Rachin Ravindra

 

[Umair7]

Conway is one talented cu*t

Can be aggressive/defensive depending on the situation! Make both pacers & spinners beg for mercy!

 

[A.P Haux]

That was an absolute slaughter. Forget Bazball, we have Ravball now

 

[Umair7]

It's not just about ego, Modi has this small dick energy, bigger than MCG, bigger than blah blah blah! Even though MCG is used for multiple sports & gets good crowd regularly for AFL. Is there any sport even popular besides cricket in India that can fill up Ahmedabad Stadium?

A guy needs to satisfy his ego, what more reasons do you need

 

[SaiSrini]

Its days like these, that makes me feel happy that I dont passionately follow international cricket anymore Promising people free food and lying to them that its an India vs Pakistan match today in order to bring them into the stadium? Picking a stadium/city like Ahmedabad for a non-India WC opener.... Everything that the BCCI has done so far with regards to this tournament, has been nothing short of PATHETIC!!!

Sorry I was a mute spectator here but I had to say this.....

 

[icyman]

I don't understand the hue and cry about the crowds at the opener. It is a weekday working day. A stadium of that size, does it really need to be 75% full?

What about matches during CWC 2015 in Australia? Were stadiums full for those? Those who are crying over it, I bet you anything we will have similar turnouts in Sri Lanka 2026 and Pakistan 2025 as well.

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There’s an argument of “does Ahmedabad need such a big stadium in it’s city?” which is worth asking.

It is being developed as a multi sport facility ,with an eye on the 2036 Olympics. Honestly, sometimes I feel our own people lambast our country way too much.

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

Its days like these, that makes me feel happy that I dont passionately follow international cricket anymore Promising people free food and lying to them that its an India vs Pakistan match today in order to bring them into the stadium? Picking a stadium/city like Ahmedabad for a non-India WC opener.... Everything that the BCCI has done so far with regards to this tournament, has been nothing short of PATHETIC!!!

Sorry I was a mute spectator here but I had to say this.....

Dont be a mute spectator, we miss all your cricketing thoughts..

 

[Bevab]

I don't understand the hue and cry about the crowds at the opener. It is a weekday working day. A stadium of that size, does it really need to be 75% full?

What about matches during CWC 2015 in Australia? Were stadiums full for those? Those who are crying over it, I bet you anything we will have similar turnouts in Sri Lanka 2026 and Pakistan 2025 as well.

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It is being developed as a multi sport facility ,with an eye on the 2036 Olympics. Honestly, sometimes I feel our own people lambast our country way too much.

I’m not lambasting our country, no idea where you got that from.

Ahmedabad is quite simply put not a city to have a six figure stadium in. The public infrastructure doesn’t support it, there isn’t as much of a casual cricket culture there or even a big city culture. Mumbai Football Arena can only host around seven thousand fans and it got lower after the redevelopment. It’s quite low compared to other football grounds in the country and yet it makes perfect sense because of how much attendance it gets from Mumbai and that’s in India’s most famous city which has the capability to support even more.

I’ve criticised some of the ‘first world opinions’ on this debate but you can’t deny that having a half full stadium for the opening day of your marquee event is a bad look for it. It was very noticeable on screen and you had the commentators talking about it constantly. I’m willing to bet that you’d have more crowd if this stadium was in Mumbai or Kolkata even with the shoddy organisation (which also heavily contributed to the lack of attendance). That it is in Ahmedabad instead is down to one and one reason only.

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Dont be a mute spectator, we miss all your cricketing thoughts..

Yeah I have no idea what the attendance issue has to do with him hating international cricket.

 

[Till Valhalla]

this stadium was in Mumbai or Kolkata even with the shoddy organisation

I think even Hyderabad would have done better. Definitely better if India/Pakistan in it.

 

[Bevab]

I’m extremely happy for Ravindra. He’s been poorly managed for a while and has suddenly been thrust into a role he should have been in since the start of his international career at the most high profile of events but he’s handled it superbly. Having a sixth bowler who can also bat in the top order or open is incredibly good from a team balance perspective and Ravindra’s got boundless potential with the bat too.

England will rue the manner in which they lost their wickets, felt like they gave a few of them away cheaply just as they started building momentum. The bowling is the bigger concern though, Woakes and Wood were second best today. I love Mo but I’m mystified as to why he keeps getting selected in the main XI.

 

[Neptune]

Definitely better if India/Pakistan in it.

I mean that'd be true in Ahmedabad too, the bilateral series vs England was sold out even when COVID was rampant
Its a Thursday during working hours, I think every city in India would struggle to sell out a 100k seater stadium for a match where India isnt even playing.

I'm not disagreeing with the sentiment here, but I dont think the low attendance is a sign of ODIs or cricket dying which has been shared widely

 

[Bevab]

I mean that'd be true in Ahmedabad too, the bilateral series vs England was sold out even when COVID was rampant
Its a Thursday during working hours, I think every city in India would struggle to sell out a 100k seater stadium for a match where India isnt even playing.

I'm not disagreeing with the sentiment here, but I dont think the low attendance is a sign of ODIs or cricket dying which has been shared widely

People are reading too much into it, agreed. The Johnny Foreigner takes are the worst though, “how can even India not fill up in the sweltering heat after a shambolic ticket sale process? Where is the much vaunted Indian cricket culture? If they can’t do it then ODIs are DEAD”.

I think you would have more attendances if it was easier for overseas fans to attend. Given how late the schedule was released and then tinkered with again any hopes of that were extinguished.