![]() ![]() How good!Ī magazine that investigated Shah was gagged. It’s like the son of one of Albanese’s cabinet members suddenly becomes a billionaire, is put in charge of cricket for the whole world, and gets to sit with Nicole Kidman, Bluey, Sam Kerr and both Cameron Smiths to watch the World Cup. Shah is the son of India’s home affairs minister and a businessman whose company’s revenues increased reportedly by a multiple of 16,000 the year after Modi took office, when Shah was 26. If you’ve been watching, the bespectacled little guy who’s always sitting beside the celebrities, glancing up at the big screen to make sure he’s on it, is Jay Shah, the honorary secretary of the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI).Īt 35 years of age, Shah is the most powerful individual in the cricket world. The merger of cricket and politics doesn’t stop there. An Indian victory should seal Modi’s re-election in six months. Imagine an Australian Cricket World Cup final being played at a brand-new 130,000-seat Albo Stadium on the site of Henson Park. The stadium is where Modi and Anthony Albanese, a year ago, circled the field in a motorised slipper. Sunday’s final is in Ahmedabad instead of Kolkata or Mumbai, where India’s finals have previously been played, or another big city like Delhi or Chennai, because Ahmedabad is the home town of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the 130,000-seat stadium is his creation with his name on it. If Kohli is king, cricket is a constitutional monarchy and the real power lies with the officials. Tendulkar passed three figures once every nine innings and Ricky Ponting once every 12. He has scored centuries at the astounding rate of once every five innings. Kohli’s respect for the 50-over format indicates that, whatever its decline in other countries, it is enjoying rude health in the one country that counts. The telecast of India’s semi-final win over New Zealand on Wednesday was watched by 53 million in India alone, tuning in to see Kohli eclipse Sachin Tendulkar’s world record of 49 one-day international centuries. Some 800 million Indian television viewers have watched the Cup, which has been behind a paywall. One million fans attended the 44 pool matches, even accounting for those fixtures which, due to disorganised ticketing, were played in ghost stadia. Those forecasting the withering of 50-over cricket will be as wrong as the weather forecasters in Kolkata on Thursday. Measured by popularity, this has been the most successful World Cup since the event’s inception in 1975. This is India’s World Cup and India’s world, and we are just living in it. And true, Australia’s best chance of a surprise would be to dismiss the talisman Kohli (and Rohit Sharma) and trigger a panic.īut one evening wouldn’t change the game’s new global colonisation. True, Australia are the team India would least fancy playing in Sunday’s final. Last year, Franklin Pierce won its second national title over CSU Pueblo, 2-0.Virat Kohli is the king and, whatever happens in the World Cup final, we are his subjects. ![]() The champions of 19 conferences are granted Automatic Qualification while the remaining teams will be selected at-large by the Men's Soccer Committee. In this single-elimination tournament, 10 teams are selected by the Men's Soccer Committee from each of the four super-regions to make up the 40-team field. ![]() 9 at 3 p.m ET, Sportsplex at Matthews (Matthews, North Carolina) ET, Sportsplex at Matthews (Matthews, North Carolina) ET, Sportsplex at Matthews (Matthews, North Carolina) December 2 - December 3 (at campus sites).□ What to watch in the 2023 DII men's soccer championship Click or tap any of the games below for stats. All times Eastern. ![]()
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