Expect visual treats and grand extravaganza on Sunday when India takes on Australia in the 2023 World Cup final at the mammoth Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The BCCI on Saturday announced the complete list of events and celebrities who will grace the final at the world’s largest cricket stadium. Sunday’s final, a spectacular air show by the Indian Air Force, was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former World Cup-winning captains Kapil and Dhoni watched from the stands, and a host of celebrities from the world of entertainment and politics. attended. , its grandeur will be unparalleled.
The Suryakiran Indian Air Force Air Show will be held after the toss ends at 1:30 pm IST. I think it will be a 15-20 minute program. Preparations for the same were completed and a successful demonstration was held on Thursday. During the drinks break of the first innings, Gujarati singing sensation Aditya Gadavi of ‘Gotilo’ fame will perform at Coke Studio.
The event gets even bigger during the innings break. Bollywood music composer Pritam and singers Jonita Gandhi, Nakash Aziz, Akasa Joshi, Tushar Joshi and Amit Mishra will entertain a crowd of 130,000 people. His 500 dancers from Mumbai will be gyrating to popular Bollywood songs.
Perhaps it will be a taste of India’s soft power, using cricket as a tool, both for the visiting Australian team and for a wider global television audience.
The BCCI will also gift special blazers to all World Cup-winning captains from 1975 to 2019. West Indies legend Clive Lloyd (1975 and 1979 World Cup winning captain), India’s Kapil Dev (1983 World Cup winning captain), Australia’s Allan Border (1987 World Cup winning captain), Australia Steve Waugh (1999 World Cup winning captain), Ricky Ponting (2003 and 2007 World Cup winning captain), India’s MS Dhoni (2011 World Cup winning captain) and Australia’s Michelle Clarke (2015 World Cup winning captain). (World Cup winning captain) and England’s Eoin Morgan (2019 World Cup winning captain) have all been invited. Some, like Morgan and Ponting, are already in India as part of the commentary team.
However, it was not clear whether Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga, who won the 1996 World Cup, and Pakistan captain Imran Khan, who won the 1992 World Cup, were invited.
As with India’s matches in this World Cup, both the stands and the streets will be filled with an “ocean of blue.”
The counterfeit industry is booming and Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma’s numbers 18 and 45 will all be ripped off the streets in no time.
Everyone will be “bleeding blue” on Sunday, including the little ones, their moms and dads, and even those annoying neighbors.
This will certainly be a ‘night to remember’ but only time will tell if Rohit and his men can make it a ‘night to savor’.