{"id":6773,"date":"2023-06-28T11:42:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T06:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=328158"},"modified":"2023-06-28T11:42:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T06:12:49","slug":"shashi-tharoor-expresses-disappointment-over-exclusion-of-iconic-cricket-venues-in-icc-mens-world-cup-2023-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/shashi-tharoor-expresses-disappointment-over-exclusion-of-iconic-cricket-venues-in-icc-mens-world-cup-2023-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Shashi Tharoor expresses disappointment over exclusion of iconic cricket venues in ICC Men\u2019s World Cup 2023 schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ICC Men\u2019s World Cup 2023 schedule was announced by the ICC, revealing India as the host country. However, the exclusion of significant cities from the list of venues has caused disappointment. Mohali, known for its cricketing history, was left out of the fixtures, while matches are concentrated in Ahmedabad\u2019s Narendra Modi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Shashi Tharoor, a Congress MP representing Kerala, expressed disappointment that iconic venues like Thiruvananthapuram\u2019s SportsHub were not included, questioning the decision to make Ahmedabad the \u201ccricket capital of India.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Disappointed to see that Thiruvananthapuram\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SportsHub?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SportsHub<\/a>, hailed by many as the best cricket stadium in India, is missing from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldCup2023?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WorldCup2023<\/a> fixture list. Ahmedabad is becoming the new cricket capital of the country, but could a match or two not have been allotted to Kerala? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/55jU1PLksQ\">pic.twitter.com\/55jU1PLksQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShashiTharoor\/status\/1673592455390715907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The omission has sparked debates and raised concerns about the selection process and the distribution of matches across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ICC Men\u2019s World Cup 2023 schedule was announced by the ICC, revealing India as the host country. However, the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":29689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3546,3683,190],"class_list":["post-6773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-bcci","tag-cwc-2023","tag-shashi-tharoor"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}