India vs Pakistan: Eager fans brave surge in travel costs for T20 World Cup
World • 1d ago
Despite soaring travel costs and ticketing challenges, desperate Indian fans travel to Colombo for the match on Sunday.
Mumbai, India — For Indian cricket fans travelling to Sri Lanka this weekend, the opportunity to watch their team take on archrivals Pakistan in the T20 World Cup has come at the cost of inflated airfares, soaring hotel prices and a long wait for matchday tickets.
But these are mere sacrifices that thousands are willing to make to witness the most heated rivalry in the sport as it unfolds on Sunday at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.
Fuelled by a decades-long fraught political relationship, cricket encounters between India and Pakistan are among the biggest spectacles in sport — often framed as bloodthirsty contests of national pride.
For the first time in the hist...