They were gone. All those thousands of tickets. Gone in a matter of hours. He tried the black market, too, though it would have cost him three times the actual price, but no ticket was available.
A young cricket fan, who lives near the Greenfield Stadium, still blames himself for not logging in a bit earlier on the day ticket sales opened.
The 50-over format has its own charms. The three-match ODI series between India and the West Indies, which begins in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday (September 26, 2026), indeed promises plenty. This series could also see both reaching more milestones: Kohli needs only 59 more to become the second man to score 15,000 ODI runs after Sachin Tendulkar, while Rohit requires 105 to touch 12,000. The match starts at 2 p.m.
With the World Cup just a year away, this is definitely the beginning of the road map for India, though the same cannot be said about the visiting team, which first has to qualify for the game’s showpiece (and this was the team that won the first two editions and lost to India in the final of the third). So much for all those talks about the meaninglessness of bilateral ODI series. Granted, it is no Test match. Nothing is. But it offers an awful lot more than T20 cricket. Looking ahead — and preparing for — the World Cup is fine. But if you are someone who believes that art is for art’s sake, this is one series you wouldn’t want to miss: you get to watch two of the modern masters, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.