ADMITTEDLY, people in hospital waiting rooms are occupied with issues other than cricketing ones. Yet, the level of indifference on offer at the Apollo Hospital in Jasola, New Delhi, was interesting. it was the first day of the ICC World Cup, apparently the marquee event of the international ODI calendar. Its pseudoolympian stature is obvious from the fact that it only comes around once every four years, in contrast to the travelling circus regularity of its more proletarian cousin, the Twenty20 World Cup. Bangladesh was playing India. our eastern neighbours had knocked us out of the last World Cup. Virender Sehwag had been talking revenge. The Indian dailies had been insisting that excitement in Bangladesh was at a fever pitch. But here, in the waiting rooms of Apollo, the only fevers were literal and physical…….read more
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