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Topic2023 World Cup

Topic: 2023 World Cup

War, fund crunch, dusty pitches: Afghanistan’s 22-yr cricket journey from underdogs to giant-slayers

Afghanistan’s incredible 22-yr journey in top class cricket is eventful. It has been interspersed by overlapping of sport & politics. But cricket has overcome all hurdles & survived.

Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Panauti’ legitimises superstition. Just accept the better team won that day

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who takes pride in being 'rational and secular', detestably attributed Indian cricket team's World Cup final loss to PM Modi's attendance in the stadium.

Takeaways from India’s World Cup 2023 campaign. Flying starts, spit-fire bowling & reimagined game

Barring disappointment in final, Rohit & his men dominated opposition in all aspects in marquee tournament. But loss to Aussies reopened old wounds of 20 yrs from Johannesburg.

Modi Stadium’s silence in World Cup final was fit for Vipassana. It wasn’t sporting culture

Building a deep-rooted sporting culture is perhaps more difficult than constructing the world's largest stadium.

‘I support Palestine,’ says fan after arrest for invading pitch in World Cup cricket final

Pitch invader wore a shirt seeking end of Gaza bombing & wore facemask in the colours of Palestinian flag. He claimed that he was from Australia.

Rohit Sharma & Co on the brink of doing an Australia on Australia. And it’s all in the mind

Will Captain Courageous lift the World Cup that flushes away the gut-wrenching disappointment he suffered 12 years ago? Will Gill, Siraj, Ishan, and Shreyas carry Kohli on their shoulders on a victory lap?

3 reasons it’s Advantage India in the 2023 World Cup final against Australia

The 2023 World Cup final isn't happening between the best two teams of the tournament. But despite India having a clear advantage, a win for Australia can't be ruled out.

Does cricket make your heart skip a beat? Medtech firms want ECG machines, nebulisers at stadiums

Ahead of India-Aus World Cup final, Medical Technology Association of India has suggested defibrillators, ECG machines & other devices be made available for health issues among spectators.

This World Cup, Pakistan played low off field too — Akram’s caste slur, Razzaq’s Aishwarya remark

Level of debate in Pakistan was lower than team's performance as commentators made bizarre claims. Sikander Bakht's remark on Rohit Sharma's 'very strange' toss just the latest.

Our take on cricket World Cup, Mahua Moitra’s expulsion, SC rulings, OBC quota— in 50 words

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.