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Evening Standard
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Malik Ouzia

Cricket World Cup: Flawless India handle burden of expectation as Australia pose final hurdle

Picture yourself waking up in Virat Kohli’s hotel bed on Sunday morning — not like that, obviously — and imagine for a minute how much sleep you might have managed through the night. A minute, in fact, would be pretty good going.

Sportspeople are not normal; the restless nights that precede the biggest days more likely to be born of kid-at-Christmas fever than the kind of anxious dread that would no doubt afflict mortals like you or I. Even for the superhuman, though — and Kohli ranks top of that class — days like these must do something different.

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