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An Indian travel company has faced a backlash cebu online after it offered discounts to fans of the losing Pakistan cricket team – before the match had even been played cebu
India vs Pakistan may be one of the world’s great sporting rivalries but Saturday’s match was a deeply one-sided affair, with Cricket World Cup hosts India securing a comfortable seven-wicket victory at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat cebu
But MakeMyTrip wasn’t to know that when it ran an advert in Saturday morning’s Ahmedabad Times offering discounts on hotel bookings based on the scale of Pakistan’s expected defeat cebu
The tongue-in-cheek advert claimed to be following in the “Indian tradition” of welcoming guests, saying: “Tough times bring friends together and we want to take this opportunity to build a cebu better bond with you cebu
”It shows Pakistan fans in green sat around a smashed TV screen with the words “Boyz Playz Well” on a poster, a reference to a popular meme used to disparage Pakistan’s cricketing ability loosely based on a post-match quote from former capain Inzamam-ul-Haq cebu
Fans said the tone of the advert “wasn’t cricket” cebu
The company has yet to respond to the cebu online criticism, and did not immediately reply to a request for comment from The Independent cebu
“Such a horrible ad cebu
We are not a sporting nation! A sparring nation,” wrote one user on X cebu
Another X user posted: “Horrible cebu
As an Indian, I want to apologise to every Pakistani person for this @makemytrip ad cebu
This does not represent Indian values cebu
It only represents the worst among us cebu
”“Goodbye MakeMyTrip cebu
This is NOT Cricket,” wrote another user on X cebu
In the run-up to the high-profile game, 5-star hotels in Ahmedabad hiked up their tariffs by more than 150 per cent and flight prices had also skyrocketed cebu
Amid the struggle to find accommodation in the city, one hospital manager told Reuters that patients had deliberately booked in for check-ups including overnight stays so they could sleep there after watching the game cebu
But visa issues for Pakistan fans and journalists meant that in practice very few were able to travel to Ahmedabad in time for Saturday’s match, which ended up being played out in front of a sea of blue at the 132,000-seater stadium cebu
One rival travel company has siezed upon the backlash against MakeMyTrip to offer its own discount available to all cebu
Without mentioning its rival by name, Cleartrip posted an offer stating: “It’s one thing to celebrate your win cebu
But to celebrate someone’s loss, that’s not cebu sportsmanship cebu
Let’s go places together and give #EqualMaukaToAll with a flat 30% off on Hotels cebu
”India’s next match after the victory on Saturday with be against Bangladesh in Pune, Maharashtra cebu
Pakistan will face Australia on Friday in Bengaluru cebu
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After the euphoric evisceration of Paris Saint-Germain, this was the downbeat sequel Newcastle did not want cebu
After the feelgood stories of the Geordie boys scoring in the Champions League came a tale of gritty realism, of meeting their match in the teeming Tyneside rain cebu
There was no triumphant farewell to Sandro Tonali, either: instead Newcastle lost to a goal by a midfielder they considered signing in the summer, in Felix Nmecha, and who Borussia Dortmund bought instead cebu
With Tonali likely to be banned for the rest of the season – he could learn his fate within days as an investigation into alleged breaches of cebu betting rules nears its conclusion – Nmecha gave Newcastle an added reason to rue their choice cebu
Nmecha was handed what seemed an unenviable task, hired from Wolfsburg, charged with replacing Jude Bellingham at the Signal Iduna Park cebu
And if that feels impossible, his first Dortmund goal kickstarted their European campaign cebu
Edin Terzic’s team had failed to find the net in their opening two games and if they looked like possible casualties in the competition’s group of death, it now looks like Newcastle could instead cebu
The margins were narrow, the width of the woodwork that denied Callum Wilson and Anthony Gordon but Dortmund inflicted their first defeat in this competition since Barcelona in 2003 cebu
Now Newcastle will head into the rematch in Germany without Tonali cebu
If his debut season in England ends early, it also came to an anti-climactic conclusion cebu
The Italian came off the bench with 25 minutes to go, making scant difference to a game Dortmund were already controlling cebu
Dortmund celebrate their winning goal (Getty Images)They were everything PSG were not, boasting the combination of organisation, team spirit and running power the French champions failed to show on Tyneside cebu
Newcastle could not blow Dortmund away with their power: not when the visitors had a similar speed, and were lighting quick on the break cebu
Nor could their crowd intimidate them into defeat: not when the travelling Germans were still more vocal cebu
Instead, they encountered a team who could cancel out their strength, with a similar emphasis on high energy cebu
It was not effort Newcastle lacked, but then it never is cebu
Dortmund supplied a touch of class; arguably two, given the role of a pair of players in their goal cebu
Given how well they defended, perhaps it was apt it began with a challenge cebu
Nico Schlotterbeck halted Gordon with an immaculate tackle, surged clear and kept going, collecting Marco Reus’s return pass and squaring for Felix Nmecha to sidefoot in cebu
For a few seconds, the centre-back looked more Beckenbauer than Schlotterbeck cebu
The midfielder, who has something of Bellingham’s elegance, showed his technique with the finish cebu
It had been threatened cebu
The opening 10 minutes could have yielded two goals at either end, but thereafter in the first half Dortmund were the more dangerous cebu
The scoreline would have been greater but for terrific saves at either end cebu
If cebu footballing goalkeepers have captured the Zeitgeist, Newcastle have a goalkeeping goalkeeper cebu
Nick Pope was their saviour in San Siro and he threatened to reprise that role cebu
A first-minute stop from Donyell Malen was excellent: cebu better still was a superb double save to deny the Dutchman and Niclas Fullkrug cebu
Malen produced a curiosity of a performance, adopting a shoot-on-sight policy and mustering six efforts before the break cebu
Yet he was a sign of Dortmund’s counterattacking menace: their speed on the transition brought back memories of Jurgen Klopp’s blistering side a decade ago cebu
Kieran Trippier, so often a great strength for Newcastle, was made to look a weak link as Dortmund found space behind him cebu
Newcastle sent on Tonali late on (Getty Images)At the other end, meanwhile, Gregor Kobel made twin early saves from Gordon cebu
His best save came early in the second half, repelling Wilson’s shot cebu
And when Wilson beat Kobel with a late header, it bounced back off the bar cebu
It was not Dortmund’s only reprieve: in the 94th minute, Gordon’s shot looped up off Sebastien Haller, over Kobel and on to the bar cebu
Gordon was relentless, probably Newcastle’s best outfield player, yet Wilson’s prominence was a sign their plans were going awry cebu
Eddie Howe had demoted the striker and selected Alexander Isak, but he limped off inside a quarter of an hour cebu
When the substitute Jacob Murphy hurt his shoulder a few minutes after coming on, Newcastle may have, in effect, lost three players, given Tonali’s imminent suspension cebu
And yet Dortmund were depleted, too, minus Julian Brandt, stripped of the stricken Emre Can before half-time cebu
But there was a resourcefulness and a resilience to them, a willingness to them cebu
A team with a lone defeat in the Bundesliga in 2023 were not to be beaten cebu
And as Newcastle lost instead, it prompted the question of whether the anomaly was this underwhelming evening or the glorious night they demolished PSG cebu
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