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Excited Indian Fans Stream Into World's Biggest Cricket Stadium

By AFP News February 24, 2021 • 18:12 PM View: 2235

Excited fans in Indian face paints streamed into the brand new world's biggest cricket stadium on Wednesday for what promises to be one of the biggest sporting spectacles since the pandemic.

The freshly named Narendra Modi Stadium can hold 110,000 fans but because of coronavirus 55,000 tickets went on sale, and officials expected between 35,000 and 40,000 people on each of the match's five days.

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