IND vs SL: Fan fever at ICC World Cup 2023 peaks as India vs Sri Lanka returns to Wankhede

In between watching India dominate Sri Lanka in a World Cup fixture, spectators made a beeline at no cost refreshments supplied by the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA).

Ahead of the event, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) introduced that it might present free consuming water to spectators in any respect 10 World Cup venues.

Last week, the MCA president Amol Kale determined that, within the non-hospitality space, each ticket holder shall be supplied with popcorn and a beverage, beginning with the India versus Sri Lanka sport.

Fans stand in a queue at no cost refreshments in the course of the India vs Sri Lanka ICC World Cup match on the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday.
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The venue will host two extra video games of the event, together with the primary semifinal on November 15.

During the innings break, the queue solely acquired longer.

“It is a good gesture by the MCA to provide the fans with refreshments in this sultry weather,” stated Rohan, a school scholar, who was watching the sport from the Sunil Gavaskar pavilion.

For a trigger

Much earlier than Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill mesmerised the group, chants of ‘Sachin, Sachin’ returned to Wankhede Stadium on Thursday afternoon as Sachin Tendulkar introduced the coveted World Cup trophy to the sector.

Sachin Tendulkar and Muttiah Muralitharan alongside Jay Shah, BCCI Honorary Secretary, Roger Binny, BCCI President, and Cynthia McCaffrey, consultant of UNICEF India, earlier than the match at Wankhede Stadium.
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Being a UNICEF (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) Regional Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia, Tendulkar and Sri Lankan spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan joined the ‘One Day 4 Children’ – an initiative by the ICC and United Nations organisation.

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“As Regional Ambassador for Unicef South Asia, it’s been my privilege to bat for children and their rights. Every international cricketer, including myself, started as a child with a dream,” Tendulkar stated.

Masking it up

As one walked in the direction of the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday morning, a bunch of boys had been noticed exterior the Churchgate station, donning Virat Kohli’s masks.

They chanted Kohli’s identify as they gathered exterior the long-lasting venue, hoping to see their favorite batter rating a century.

Fans of Virat Kohli pose carrying his masks earlier than the India vs Sri Lanka sport in Mumbai.
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Though Kohli scored his seventieth ODI fifty and amassed 1000 runs in 2023, changing into the third India batter within the calendar 12 months to succeed in the milestone after Shubman Gill and Rohit Sharma, it was heartbreak for his followers because the star batter fell in need of his forty ninth century by simply 12 runs!