This story centers around the Cricket World Cup that is being played in Bangladesh. This event pretty much halts everything in the country for the duration of the tournament (about a month). Everyone is involved in the excitement and most do not even have tickets to the event but they are very proud to represent their country and don't even care. The experience to celebrate before the match and celebrate after the match means much more to them than any ticket ever would. The main point of the story is about an Indian man who rode his bike from India to Bangladesh for 9 days to come to this match. He came bearing a flag for his country and arrived right before his team did on the bus. This man rode his bike across the country for 9 days and did not even have a ticket to this event. He came knowing that as long as he could get Sachin (the star player for India) to see him then he would get in. This was a really absurd concept because in America if you want a ticket from a player this definitely needs to be prearranged. In this case, the man was right, he made eye contact with Sachin and Sachin stopped and addressed the man by name as if he was an old friend. He then proceeded to tell his team that they were to leave this man a ticket at will call. He was overly excited. The other interesting part about this story was that Bangladesh has never won a cricket game, ever. You would never know this if you went to this event because everyone was celebrating and showing support like they were the defending champions. This goes to show the impact that sports and big events like this can have on just one nation! On the media side, every channel in the country was providing coverage of this event, every other commercial was about cricket and every third billboard. The newspapers also designed special logos for each edition that was to be printed for the duration of the event.
http://sports.espn.go.com/extra/cricket/news/story?id=6142975
-Jessica West
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