MUMBAI: It was a super day at the office over the weekend for Teams India in both cricket (India’s national sport) and hockey (notionally national sport).
Under overcast Manchester skies that “co-operated” for long enough to deliver a result, Virat Kohli’s men made it seven in a row against Pakistan in World Cup clashes, outclassing their arch-rivals with an 89-run triumph built on man-of-the-match Rohit Sharma’s brilliant 140 from 113 balls.
During the course of the game, India’s record breaking (and setting) captain also broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record of the quickest to 11,000 ODI runs during the high-octane clash against Pakistan at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 on Sunday in a match witnesed by a global television audience of 1 billion+.
Meanwhile, on this side of the pond in Bhubaneswar, India reserved its best for the final, registering a comprehensive 5-1 victory against South Africa in the title clash of the Hockey Series Finals on Saturday with a performance that was far removed from the fumbling start it made to the competition.
‘Satta bazaar’ bids cross Rs1bn
The World Cup clash between India and Pakistan saw the betting bazaars in Delhi going crazy, with the police estimating that the bids in the illegal satta (betting) market could have crossed the Rs 1-billion mark in the National Capital Region (NCR), IANS reports.
