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“Look, I’d be lying if I said that [not affect us]”It doesn’t feel like an ICC event to be very honest,” Arthur said when asked about the partisan build-up. It looked like a two-part series. It looked like a BCCI event. I could not hear Dil Dil Pakistan Come through the microphones more often tonight.
“So yes, that plays a role, but I won’t use that as an excuse because for us it was about living in the moment, it was about the next ball, it was about how you face the opposition. Indian players tonight.”
The lack of green in the stands is partly because Pakistani fans do not have visas to attend the tournament. And it wasn’t too different for the traveling Pakistani media contingent. As of Friday, only three out of 60 Pakistani journalists – out of a long list of 355 original applications – had received visas, and that too after a long delay.
As a follow-up, Arthur was asked if such a situation should be allowed at world events. It’s a killer question. “Look, I don’t think I can’t comment on that yet,” he said. “I don’t want to be fined.”
“Of course so [a sea of blue] This will be the case. “We are really sad that our supporters are not here,” he said. “They love being here and I am sure Indian cricket fans will love our supporters here as well.
“It was definitely unusual in that way, there was no familiar music for us today. So it didn’t feel like a World Cup match, honestly. We didn’t expect anything else. [But] We love this occasion and we are disappointed that we did not do justice to this occasion or to our many fans at home and around the world.”
