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offer ends December 3rd, 2023. Open to UK and N.I. Guardian. This is John Batchelor, a wonderful conversation with Tunku Berjahjan, who writes for the Wall Street Journalist

the American Enterprise Institute, about cricket, the World Cup Championship within hours in India, between India and Australia, but the cricket is also, as the Financial

Times article says, more than a game.

Cricket has taken over the people of India happily.

They have a hundred thousand person stadium,

Mach Madabad, in Gujarat, the province where the now popular powerful Prime Minister,

Norengramodi comes from.

The stadium is named from Norengramodi that everybody will be celebrating the

India versus Australia game. At the the same time an article in the Financial Times

identifies the strife that can occur in cricket in India about partisanship.

Otunku deals with it very carefully as he helped me understand that there are two Muslim players on the team of 11 for India.

That's about the proportion, Tunkus says, of the population.

And there are B.J.P. Hindu nationalist fans who if a Muslim player on a team, any team,

there are many in India, does not do as well as expected, there will be negative remarks. And yet Tunku emphasizes that

cricket is the institution, the game in India, that truly believes in the meritocracy. It's a pitch, it's a round

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