The News Freedom
Chandigarh, October 15
It wasn’t a contest. Not even close. But the sea of blue that filled the Narendra Modi Stadium on Saturday got what it wanted — some Jasprit Bumrah magic, some Kuldeep Yadav perfection and a knock of the kind that only Rohit Sharma can play, according to The Hindustan Times. The fans, screaming and savouring the carnival-like atmosphere that enveloped this sprawling stadium, saw India seal an easy seven-wicket win against Pakistan in a contest that never rose to match the pre-game hype, The Hindustan Times reported.
The Hindu reported that like fireflies dancing on a surreal night, fans held aloft their cellphones, switched on the torchlights and swayed. The surreal moment at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on October 14, summed up the state of the much-anticipated World Cup match between India and Pakistan.
Almost all the newspapers in India has given a prominent coverage to India’s victory over Pakistan at Cricket World Cup and dominated the Israel-Hamas war coverage. Even the international newspapers online editions also gave coverage to India’s victory against Pakistan.
Rohit Sharma’s men were on the ascendant and stayed that way right through with the skipper leading from the front. Chasing Pakistan’s 191, India scored 192 for three in 30.3 overs and registered a seven-wicket victory. The Men in Blue found their batting and bowling arms in sync, and Pakistan capitulated, according to The Hindu.
According to The Times of India, Rohit Sharma, the Indian opener, showcased his mastery of the pull shot during a high-stakes World Cup match against Pakistan. Sharma trolled the International Cricket Council (ICC) for not including him in a poll about the best pull shot, and then proceeded to hit magnificent pulls and other stunning shots during the game
Pakistan imploded on the big stage yet again, this time owing to their misfiring middle-order and a blunt bowling attack, to give India the bragging rights and yet another win in their ICC ODI World Cup encounters.Captain Rohit Sharma smacked six sixers in his 63-ball 86 as India crushed Pakistan by seven wickets with over 19 overs remaining at the Narendra Modi Stadium here on Saturday evening, The Tribune reported.
According to The Guardian, this was a giant of an occasion, but a midget of a match. After all the weeks of anticipation, the days of travel as fans journeyed across India and from its diaspora towards the homing beacon this epic bowl had become, and the hours as they filed and then flooded into the ground, in cricket terms it was decided in little more than the blink of an eye, the time it took for Pakistan to crumble.
Jasprit Bumrah and Kuldeep Yadav triggered a stunning Pakistan collapse and shared four wickets in India’s dominant victory over its archrival at the Cricket World Cup on Saturday. The seven-wicket win in front of a crowd of more than 100,000 fans at Narendra Modi Stadium was India’s eighth consecutive victory over Pakistan in World Cups in a streak that began in 1992, reported The Washington Times.
While The New York Times reported that on Saturday, the two sides faced off in the men’s cricket World Cup in India, in a match that India’s team won with a comfortable margin. The match, a league game at Narendra Modi Stadium — capacity 132,000 people — was sold out. Hotel prices in Ahmedabad, the site of the stadium, named for the vigorously nationalist Indian Prime Minister, were between five and ten times higher than usual.