It is likely India 2023 will be a wonderful tournament, but it will also be a six-week campaign rally before April’s election
about Modi and the Cricket World Cup, contrasting its mild treatment by the sporting media with that of the football World Cup last year.
As for India 2023, it seems highly likely this will be a wonderful World Cup. India loves cricket and stages it like no one else. There are some good teams, not to mention, in England’s case, some very old teams, the class of 2019 still out there making the scene like ageing action heroes strapped into their muscle-corsets.
England celebrate winning the 2019 Cricket World Cup at Lord’s; the 2023 event is likely to be just as spectacular.But Oborne is also right. This is an aggressively political event, a six-week campaign rally before April’s election, in a nation where the national team in the national sport is unusually assimilated into the ruling party’s brand machine. The concern is that Modi has overseen an increasingly hard line and violent regime.
Consider the rain this week in Colombo, where all six final matches of the Asia Cup, including Sunday’s mouth-watering collision of India and Pakistan, will be played after a rescheduling, this despite a weather forecast that is basically every symbol – lightning, cloud big drops, sun, all the weather.
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