{"id":13473,"date":"2023-10-12T12:57:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T12:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/fans-throng-hospitals-for-overnight-stay-as-india-pakistan-hysteria-grips-ahmedabad\/"},"modified":"2023-10-12T12:57:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T12:57:07","slug":"fans-throng-hospitals-for-overnight-stay-as-india-pakistan-hysteria-grips-ahmedabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/fans-throng-hospitals-for-overnight-stay-as-india-pakistan-hysteria-grips-ahmedabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans throng hospitals for overnight stay as India-Pakistan hysteria grips Ahmedabad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cricket fever has gripped Ahmedabad ahead of Saturday\u2019s World Cup group stage clash between arch-rivals India and Pakistan and a visit to the hospitals near the venue of the match in the western Indian city clearly shows the degree of excitement.<\/p>\n

Quite a few hospitals have seen a sudden influx of patients booked in for check-ups involving a night\u2019s stay to coincide with the most anticipated match of the 50-over showpiece.<\/p>\n

Several doctors told local media the rush for check-up \u201cpackages\u201d was an ingenious way to find affordable accommodation as hotel costs have soared up to 20-fold ahead of the match.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have come across some cases of people coming to watch the India-Pakistan match also taking an appointment for health check-ups and staying in hospitals,\u201d Tushar Patel, President of the Ahmedabad Medical Association, told Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Ahmedabad Hospitals and Nursing Homes Association has discouraged its members from accommodating such fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have asked our members not to entertain such requests. Hospitals are not meant for non-patients,\u201d its president Bharat Gadhavi told Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Three wars<\/h2>\n

The Asian neighbours have fought three wars since becoming separate countries in 1947 and the relationship further soured after the 2008 Mumbai attack.<\/p>\n

While bilateral cricket became a casualty of geopolitical realities, it also whetted the appetite for a clash between neighbours who play each other only in multi-team events.<\/p>\n

India and Pakistan head into the showdown having both won their opening two matches at the tournament.<\/p>\n

The first batch of tickets for Saturday\u2019s game were sold out within an hour of going on sale in August, prompting the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to release another 14,000 earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Ahmedabad resident Hemish Patel and his friends, after several days of failed attempts, grabbed four tickets, each costing 6,000 Indian rupees ($72.15).
\n\u201cWe logged into the site with multiple devices,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe constantly kept on refreshing the site and were able to book within 10 minutes after the sale of tickets began,\u201d he said. Patel was one of the lucky few.<\/p>\n

Tickets are fetching up to 25 times face value on resale and city police arrested four youths on Tuesday for selling fakes.<\/p>\n

Airfare has surged up to four times and Indian railways will run a pair of super fast trains linking Mumbai and Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n

Perfect venue<\/h2>\n

The 134,000-capacity Narendra Modi Stadium, which hosted former US President Donald Trump in 2020 and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese earlier this year, looks like a perfect arena for cricket\u2019s fiercest rivalry.<\/p>\n

According to Indian media reports<\/a>, Saturday\u2019s game will kick off with a musical performance and with be graced by Bollywood stars such as Amitabh Bachan, Rajnikanth and others.<\/p>\n

Ahmedabad has been declared a \u201cno-drone zone\u201d on Saturday, and 11,000 security personnel will be deployed for the high-profile match, Ahmedabad police commissioner GS Malik said.<\/p>\n

On their first tour of India since the 2016 T20 World Cup, Pakistan were accorded a warm welcome in Hyderabad<\/a>, where they played their first two matches.<\/p>\n

India have a perfect 7-0 record against Pakistan at ODI World Cups and while the rivalry assumes the Orwellian concept of serious sport \u2014 \u201cwar minus the shooting\u201d \u2014 players from both sides share good relations.<\/p>\n

During the Sri Lanka leg of the Asia Cup last month, Pakistan fast bowler Shaheen Afridi gave Jasprit Bumrah a gift for the Indian\u2019s newborn baby and the video went viral.<\/p>\n

It will be a special occasion for Indian Liyakat Khan, whose daughter Samiya is married to Pakistan fast bowler Hasan Ali.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy wife went to Pakistan in 2021 when my daughter was expecting her first child. We will meet again \u2026 I can\u2019t wait to hold my grandchild,\u201d Khan told the Indian Express<\/em> newspaper.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cricket fever has gripped Ahmedabad ahead of Saturday\u2019s World Cup group stage clash between arch-rivals India and Pakistan and a visit to the hospitals near the venue of the match in the western Indian city clearly shows the degree of excitement. Quite a few hospitals have seen a sudden influx of patients booked in for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/10\/12163531e4e7129.jpg?r=163634","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}