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oh GOOD. It’s raining at Nassau Stadium right now. It has been confirmed that the roll is being postponed. I think it’s drizzling steadily and it’s not too bad. There is actually an inspection by a judge in a few minutes.
Preamble
James Wallace
Hello and welcome to the Big One. Sunday in the Big Apple. New York. The city that never sleeps. New Yoik, New Yoik. It’s India vs. Pakistan – the fiercest rivalry in the game – in one of the greatest cities on earth (okay, okay, about 1.5 hours down the road from Manhattan, but you know, it’s known to be pretty tight there ).
Our man on the ground, Andy Bull, wrote this fantastic screenplay.
Most locals don’t even know the match is happening, but the few who do don’t talk about much else. It seems almost anyone who is anyone in the Pakistani and Indian-American community will be there and everyone else wants to know how they can join them.
Almost everyone I see asks me for a ticket,” said the US Cricket Chairman Venu Pisike. US opening bowler Ali Khan, meanwhile, sighed: “Oh man, don’t even go there. I had to stop responding to requests. I’m not even messing with the tickets for this game, it’s crazy.”
Regardless of the actual match, you cannot enter the viewing party organized by new York Mets at Citi Field. They expect 27,000 to watch the game on the big screen, while about 5,000 more are expected to show up for a similar event a few miles from Eisenhower Park at Cedar Creek Park. That’s before you start adding in all the people watching the game in restaurants, bars and corner stores around town.
The small town of Westbury has no idea what is about to hit it. “We don’t know what to expect,” said County Executive Bruce Blakeman, “but we’ve been told it’s going to be like the Super Bowl on steroids.”
Hundreds of additional police patrols have been deployed to the area and 300 local officers will be on site, plus an undisclosed number of reinforcements from Suffolk County, state police and the FBI. They have snipers on nearby rooftops, SWAT teams at every gate, flatbed trucks blocking every road to the venue and a team of 50 officers monitoring ‘every inch of the venue’ on cameras from a remote location.”
The game will start in just over 30 minutes, I will bring you team news and throw down every moment. This must be quite a sight. Yes I’m talking to you.
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