{"id":14217,"date":"2023-10-14T19:22:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T19:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/team-director-slams-partisan-atmosphere-during-india-pakistan-world-cup-match\/"},"modified":"2023-10-14T19:22:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T19:22:56","slug":"team-director-slams-partisan-atmosphere-during-india-pakistan-world-cup-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/team-director-slams-partisan-atmosphere-during-india-pakistan-world-cup-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Team director slams partisan atmosphere during India-Pakistan World Cup match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>More than 120,000 fans thronged the Narendra Modi Stadium in India\u2019s Ahmedabad on Saturday to witness the ICC Men\u2019s Cricket World Cup\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1781048\/dominant-india-give-pakistan-a-shellacking-race-to-measly-target-with-19-overs-to-spare\">box office fixture<\/a> between archrivals India and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all of them, however, were Indian fans and they were cheering their team with energy levels as intense as they could get.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/images.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1192059\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>India steamrolled Pakistan by seven wickets in a lopsided blockbuster match to maintain their unblemished 50-overs World Cup record against their neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan were bowled out for 191 in the 43rd over after their batting line-up collapsed in characteristic fashion in the face of disciplined Indian bowlers.<\/p>\n<p>To make it even more intimidating for the Pakistan players, the chants by the stadium announcer and the spectators were, obviously, only to buck up the home side.<\/p>\n<p>So was the case with the music being played at the cauldron-like venue.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan team director Mickey Arthur felt it all and did not hold himself from being \u201cbrutally honest\u201d about what he felt was a partisan atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt didn\u2019t seem like an ICC event to be brutally honest,\u201d Arthur said in the post-match press conference when asked how much a factor the partisan crowd was against a \u201ctimid\u201d Pakistan team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seemed like a bilateral series; it seemed like a BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arthur accused the public address system organisers of favouring India by refusing to play a renowned patriotic song: \u201cI didn\u2019t hear <em>Dil Dil Pakistan<\/em> coming through the microphones too often tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arthur, however, didn\u2019t count it as an excuse for Pakistan\u2019s lop-sided seven-wicket loss against India.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo yes, that does play a role, but I\u2019m not going to use that as an excuse because for us it was about living the moment. It was about the next ball and it was about how we were going to combat the Indian players tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1777488\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Pakistan fans were effectively banned from the ground after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1777488\">failing to secure visas<\/a> to cross the border, leaving the arena awash with the blue shirts of India supporters as the hosts coasted to a seven-wicket victory.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur\u2019s team were backed only by a handful of expatriate Pakistan fans who had made the trip from the United States and United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Since the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, India and Pakistan have not played a full bilateral series as New Delhi and Islamabad remain at diplomatic loggerheads.<\/p>\n<p>India failed to issue visas to Pakistan fans despite them already having acquired World Cup match tickets.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"too-timid\" href=\"#too-timid\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>\u2018Too timid\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><figure class=\"media  sm:w-full  w-full  media--stretch  \"><figcaption class=\"media__caption  \">Fans cheer for team India during the 2023 ICC Men\u2019s Cricket World Cup ODI match between India and Pakistan at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on October 14, 2023. \u2014 AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Arthur admitted his team let themselves down with only captain Babar Azam (50) and Mohammad Rizwan (49) contributing major runs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought we were a little bit timid,\u201d said Arthur of the batting. \u201cI did think we could probably have taken on the Indian spinners just a little bit more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five Indian bowlers \u2014 Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja \u2014 grabbed two wickets each as Pakistan folded in 42.5 overs having been 155-2 at one stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ve got to realise that there are two ways to always skin a cat,\u201d said Arthur.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we\u2019ve had success by taking it deep and then cashing in at the back end but we couldn\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the win, India extended their unbeaten record against Pakistan in World Cups to 8-0, with Arther also involved as head coach in the 2019 event in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can only explain 2019 and this one,\u201d said Arthur. \u201cI think we were well beaten in both games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan head coach Grant Bradburn had similar sentiments about the environment at one of the biggest cricket stadiums in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealander believed it would have been better if Pakistani fans were in the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really sad that our supporters aren\u2019t here and they would have loved to be here,\u201d Bradburn said during a media talk following the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven the Indian fans would have loved to have Pakistani fans in the stadium. So, it was really unusual in that way. No familiar music for us! It did not feel like a World Cup game, honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love the occasion and we are disappointed that we did not do justice to the occasion or justice to our many fans at home and globally,\u201d Bradburn added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 120,000 fans thronged the Narendra Modi Stadium in India\u2019s Ahmedabad on Saturday to witness the ICC Men\u2019s Cricket World Cup\u2019s box office fixture between archrivals India and Pakistan. Nearly all of them, however, were Indian fans and they were cheering their team with energy levels as intense as they could get. 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