MUMBAI, India — A heavy bout of nostalgia will descend upon the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday when India plays Sri Lanka at the Cricket World Cup. It will be a rematch of the 2011 final ...

It will be the first men’s Cricket World Cup to be hosted solely by India, who last co-hosted the event in 1987, 1996, and 2011. This year’s tournament marks the last time ten teams will compete, as ...

The most-watched cricket match, the 2011 World Cup final between Sri Lanka and India, drew over 500 million viewers. At least four other matches since have pulled in hundreds of millions of viewers.

Gambhir was the team's top scorer in India's T20 World Cup-winning campaign in 2007 and also in the 2011 ODI World Cup ... Kohli and Rohit bid farewell to Test cricket within a week of each ...

The BJP, led by Modi, also wielded a direct influence on the Board of Control for Cricket in India ... a city that hosted memorable World Cup matches in 1996 and 2011, was perceived by some ...