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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ali Martin in Ahmedabad

Cricket World Cup diary: mocktails, Lord’s power and ‘hazardous’ air

The India captain, Rohit Sharma, talks to England's Jos Buttler
The India captain, Rohit Sharma (left), has expressed his concerns over air pollution during this World Cup. Photograph: Matt Roberts/ICC/Getty Images

Flaming mocktails and Ashes tales

Led by Bharat Sundaresan, genial correspondent for Cricbuzz and adopted Aussie these days, the two Ashes press packs came together on World Cup group stage match 36 eve to enjoy some Gujarati cuisine, a couple of flaming mocktails and to swap stories about respective tours. Relations differ hugely to those between the two teams, albeit in a turnaround from the dressing room scenes at the end of the Oval Test, it was the Australians who left the English waiting, turning up 45 minutes late. Chalk it up as yet another moral victory.

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