After two wildly contrasting World Cup semi-finals in the traditional centres of Mumbai and Kolkata comes the grand finale at the ground that India’s board – and its government, certainly – hopes will become the beating heart of cricket in the country.
Since its £80m construction three years ago, the hulking saffron-seated thunderdome that is Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium has staged two Indian Premier League finals, three Test matches and, among its four fixtures so far in this global tournament, seen arch-rivals Pakistan swatted aside by Rohit Sharma’s poster boys.
