A record 518 million viewers from India watched matches during 48-day event on TV, while Disney’s streaming app recorded a peak concurrent viewership of 59 million during finals.
The consistency of the Indian cricket team has led to huge expectations. Our cricket-crazy population puts enormous pressure on its players. It leads to performance anxiety.
Priyanka Gandhi had stated that the day of the final is Indira Gandhi’s birthday, and therefore India would win the World Cup. Will the late PM then be named a panauti?
Total of 1,250,307 fans watched the 5 Oct-19 Nov showpiece event from stands, surpassing previous mark of 1.016 million set at the 2015 edition in Australia and New Zealand.
The here-and-there glories and the dominance of BCCI built a perception—that we are the new leaders of international cricket. But believing is not enough.
‘If any team can challenge home side at this point it is probably Australians, because of their ultra-competitive nature,’ former English batsman writes in an op-ed in The Guardian.
India arrived at Wankhede Stadium, where they lifted their 2nd & last World Cup trophy in 2011, looking invincible, winning all nine round-robin matches without any stiff challenge.
Kapil Dev’s ‘Palmolive da jawab nahi’ ad was early sign of advertisers taping into the middle-class. Today, Indian cricket has a new base—small towns playing, funding, watching.
DMK govt accuses Centre of withholding funds, tightening borrowing, unilateral deductions from state accounts. Says Centre's accounting & funding decisions have 'artificially inflated' debt burden.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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