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There were empty seats at the Nassau County ground for India’s victory against
Ireland, but there will be a full house against Pakistan. Photograph: Pankaj
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The ObserverT20 World Cup 2024



‘SUPER BOWL ON STEROIDS’: NEW YORK GEARS UP FOR CRICKET’S HOTTEST RIVALRY

Success of the T20 World Cup’s leg in the Big Apple depends on the blockbuster
between India and Pakistan


Andy Bull in New York
Sat 8 Jun 2024 13.33 CESTLast modified on Sat 8 Jun 2024 21.18 CEST
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There has not been a match between India and Pakistan yet that did not have
plenty riding on it one way or another. The rivalry, which stretches over 59
Tests, 135 one-day internationals and 12 T20s in 75 years, is as intense as any
in international sport. But this latest game between the teams is being played
for strange and unfamiliar stakes.

Over this past week, it has become clear the success of the entire New York leg
of the T20 World Cup is going to hinge on it and that the whole multimillion
dollar project, which involved the construction of a 34,000-seat stadium, has
been organised around this fixture.



The Nassau County ground was not sold out for any of the first three group
games. The combined attendance only just about equalled its capacity. The
architects made the place so big that even the 20,000 spectators who turned out
for India’s win against Ireland seemed a little lost inside its vast scaffold
grandstands.

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Tickets for India v Pakistan, on the other hand, are long gone. The few that are
available on resale start at $700 (£550) each – a snip next to the final
hospitality spots, which cost $10,000. A lot of the corporate boxes, empty all
week, are going to be used for this game before they are disassembled again.

Most locals do not even know the match is happening, but the few who do are not
talking about much else. It seems just about everyone who is anyone in the
Pakistani- and Indian-American communities is going to be there and everyone
else wants to know how they can join them.

“Pretty much everyone I see asks me for a ticket,” said the USA Cricket
chairman, Venu Pisike. The USA’s opening bowler Ali Khan, meanwhile, sighed:
“Oh, man, don’t even go there. I’ve had to stop replying to the requests. I
don’t even mess with the tickets for that match, it’s crazy.”

Never mind the actual match, you cannot get into the viewing party being hosted
by the New York Mets at Citi Field. They’re expecting 27,000 along to watch the
game on the big screen, while another 5,000 or so are due at a similar event a
few miles from Eisenhower Park in Cedar Creek Park. That is before you start
adding on all the people following the game in restaurants, bars and corner
stores around the city.

The little town of Westbury has no idea what’s about to hit it. “We don’t know
what to expect,” said the county executive, Bruce Blakeman, “but we’re told it’s
going to be like the Super Bowl on steroids.”

A hundred extra police patrols have been laid on in the district and 300 local
officers will be on duty at the ground, plus an undisclosed number of
reinforcements from Suffolk County, the state police and FBI. They have got
snipers on the nearby rooftops, SWAT teams on every gate, flatbed trucks
blocking every route into the venue and a team of 50 officers monitoring “every
inch of the venue” on cameras from a remote location.

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India’s Virat Kohli in the nets at the Nassau County ground before the match
against Pakistan. Photograph: Alex Davidson/ICC/Getty Images

According to the police commissioner, Patrick Ryder, it is the biggest thing to
happen in the county since President Obama passed through in 2012. “We consider
this as the same level of threat as the presidential visit,” he said. “But the
operation itself is much bigger because that was only one person and this is
over 30,000.”

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The ground is as ready as it is ever going to be. The pitches, grown in beds
shipped over from Australia, have been pretty wild all week. Coaches and batsmen
have been complaining about erratic bounce and three players were hit during
India’s match against Ireland. The groundstaff put in 24 hours of emergency work
afterwards and if the batsmen still found it hard to time the ball during
Ireland’s second game against Canada on Friday, at least no one else had to
retire hurt. The sides managed to make it past 100 runs too, something no other
team had managed to do.

The ICC may be independent but it still has to answer to the Board of Control
for Cricket in India and its broadcast partners, who generate 85% of the game’s
revenues. The prospect of this match being played on an unfit and even dangerous
pitch was making the administrators more nervous than the batters.

The teams themselves are well used to the hoopla around these games. The state
of relations between the countries means India and Pakistan play each other only
in international tournaments, but since the ICC always ensures they are paired
together India and Pakistan have played each other 18 times in the past decade.

The players, who are the only people who understand how it feels to be in the
middle of a match that regularly draws an audience of almost 500 million, have
developed a kind of kinship with each other as a consequence. They tend to get
on better than their politicians do.

India, who crushed Ireland by eight wickets here on Wednesday, are looking
formidable. Pakistan, who lost in the tournament’s first shock to the USA in a
super over in Dallas on Thursday, are not. Whoever wins, the organisers will
settle for a couple of good scores, a close finish, a handful of sixes and a
clean getaway for the VIPs.

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