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India’s prime minister will likely be among the 132,000 people watching the final in his namesake Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
It’s been a bit of a procession so far for India, who have barely broken stride in winning 10 out of 10 World Cup games.
If India somehow manage to lose the showpiece final, it will be an embarrassment for Modi but there’s no doubt about where the power in global cricket resides. The country’s highly influential, politically backed cricket board; vast finances driven by the lucrative Indian Super League; and a 1.4 billion cricket-crazy population increasingly make for a unipolar cricketing world order.
Suparna Sharma looked at Bollywood’s stormy relationship with cricket and what the films say about a changing India; from post-colonial underdog to increasingly assertive power, to the aggressive Hindu nationalism prevalent under Modi – which is complicated by the country’s diversity.
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