Bengaluru, Aug. 23 -- The M Chinnaswamy Stadium, once the pulse of Bengaluru's cricketing passion, now stands in silence. Its floodlights, which once witnessed legends walk to the crease to thunderous applause and a city draped in red and gold, will not illuminate on the Women's ODI World Cup 2025.
Eleven lives lost in a tragic June stampede have left a scar too deep, and the International Cricket Council (ICC) has quietly shifted the fixtures-including the grand finale-to DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, alongside Guwahati, Indore, Visakhapatnam, and Colombo.
It was a day that began with jubilation. Royal Challengers Bengaluru had finally ended an 18-year IPL drought. Streets around Chinnaswamy overflowed with fans waving flags, chanting...