After India vs Pakan game, Mickey Arthur says: ‘Didn’t seem like ICC event… didn’t hear Dil Dil Pakan’ | Cricket-world-cup News

Pakan team director Mickey Arthur said the atmosphere at the Narendra Modi Stadium for the India versus Pakan encounter felt like a bilateral series was being played.
With Pakani fans and journals still awaiting their visas from India, the match was played in front of a sea of blue jersey sporting fans. The Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad can host over 1,30,000 people. On Saturday, all of them were partisan Indian supporters, there making the atmosphere even more intimidating for the visiting team, which has not played in Indian conditions for many years.
“It didn’t seem like an ICC event to be brutally honest. It seemed like a bilateral series; it seemed like a BCCI event. I didn’t hear Dil Dil Pakan coming through the microphones too often tonight,” he said after the game. “So yes, that does play a role, but I’m not going to use that as an excuse because for us it was about living the moment, it was about the next ball and it was about how we were going to combat the Indian, the Indian players tonight.”
In the match on Saturday, spurred the home support, India fired on all cylinders in what was supposed to be a terse encounter. They blew away arch-rivals Pakan with ease seven wickets.
When asked if that having a completely partisan environment for a World Cup game is “right” and “should be allowed”, he said: “Look, I don’t think I can’t comment on that just yet. I don’t want to get fined.”
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Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj were searingly clinical with the ball before skipper Rohit completed the rout as India produced a near-perfect performance in one of the most lopsided World Cup games between the arch-rivals.
Rohit just casually flaunted his repertoire of strokes, which included a pull shot behind square of Shaheen Shah Afridi and a square driven six off Haris Rauf, as India were home 8.05 pm local time.

The win was India’s eighth in the 50 over global event, where Pakan had never been able to match their neighbours in terms of skill, strategy or execution since 1992.