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A billion people will watch the India vs. Pakistan World Cup cricket match tonight
Posted on 6/15/19 at 4:09 pm
Posted on 6/15/19 at 4:09 pm
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On Sunday in Manchester, India and Pakistan will play the latest installment of the most important and fraught sporting rivalry in the world. This game is often described by a shorthand of three numbers, and as this story is written by an outsider for other outsiders, that's how I'll begin.
The first numbers are 3 and 6.
The countries have fought three wars (and several near-wars) -- over simple things such as land and borders and complicated things such as religion and home, depending on whom you ask.
In the World Cup, they have faced each other six times. India have won all six, including a match in 1999 that was played while the countries skirmished and nearly started the fourth of those wars. Shots were being fired in Kashmir as the team took the field at Manchester's Old Trafford (a half-mile from the more famous football stadium with the same name).
The teams will take that same field on Sunday, 20 years later.
The third number used to describe this rivalry is the television audience for the matches: estimated at somewhere around 1 billion people.
That's nearly 10 times the most-watched Super Bowl.
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This post was edited on 6/15/19 at 6:46 pm
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Posted on 6/15/19 at 4:15 pm to stendulkar
I don't think anyone in India or Pakistan has a TV.
Posted on 6/15/19 at 4:16 pm to stendulkar
Would honestly enjoy to watch this if it wasn't at 4:30am Central Time.
Posted on 6/15/19 at 4:18 pm to BlackCoffeeKid
I don’t think I would watch if it was in my backyard, but good for them
Posted on 6/15/19 at 5:12 pm to stendulkar
Then go take a standing dump on a public beach
Posted on 6/15/19 at 5:17 pm to kywildcatfanone
I don't know about Pakistan but in India you'll see people taking selfies with their smartphones everywhere (I think the highest death by selfie of any country). So they can probably watch it there. But it's probably more like 10-30 people to one tv screen. They also stream it in theaters.
Posted on 6/15/19 at 5:23 pm to stendulkar
The B.O. that will be on that field will be insane
This post was edited on 6/15/19 at 5:23 pm
Posted on 6/15/19 at 5:42 pm to stendulkar
I thought cricket matches lasted multiple days
Posted on 6/15/19 at 5:45 pm to BlackCoffeeKid
It will finish at noon eastern so you can still watch
Posted on 6/15/19 at 5:45 pm to TomRollTideRitter
That’s test cricket. This is ODI
T20 are like 3 hours
T20 are like 3 hours
Posted on 6/15/19 at 5:48 pm to stendulkar
Hopefully the loser doesn’t launch a couple of nukes.
Posted on 6/15/19 at 5:49 pm to stendulkar
These are always made up numbers...just based on population sizes.
People are poor and have to work - not sitting in front of an old black and white watching a 3-day match for 6-hours a day.
There was a great SI article about an American going to India to find out about the fascination with Cricket - turns out it was more a fascination with celebrity and Tendulkar and his personal life and not so much Cricket.
People are poor and have to work - not sitting in front of an old black and white watching a 3-day match for 6-hours a day.
There was a great SI article about an American going to India to find out about the fascination with Cricket - turns out it was more a fascination with celebrity and Tendulkar and his personal life and not so much Cricket.
Posted on 6/15/19 at 5:52 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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These are always made up numbers...just based on population sizes. People are poor and have to work - not sitting in front of an old black and white watching a 3-day match for 6-hours a day.
Don’t post about things you know nothing about.
Posted on 6/15/19 at 7:17 pm to TN Bhoy
This thread is nothing but that, I’d bet all of the posters here haven’t made it past Destin I their entire lives and love NASCAR.
Posted on 6/15/19 at 7:43 pm to stendulkar
I wondered why the random Indian dude in the neighborhood was playing cricket with his kid in the yard today.
Posted on 6/15/19 at 7:46 pm to TomRollTideRitter
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I thought cricket matches lasted multiple days
Tests do.
This format is slightly shorter, generally, than the average nine-inning baseball game.
Posted on 6/16/19 at 12:19 pm to AlonsoWDC
India vs Pakistan scorecard
Looks like India has all but wrapped this match up. What an arse whooping it was. Make that 7-0 in favor of India against Pakistan in Word Cup matches.
Looks like India has all but wrapped this match up. What an arse whooping it was. Make that 7-0 in favor of India against Pakistan in Word Cup matches.
Posted on 6/16/19 at 12:36 pm to stendulkar
Outside of Azam and Amir I doubt any of the Pakistani's would make the Indian side.
Posted on 6/16/19 at 12:46 pm to K_s_tiger
It’s too bad the rain is going to be the end of Pakistan, but there is about a 99% chance they wouldn’t score enough anyway.
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