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#rajdeepsardesai #straightbatwithrajdeep This week, the world’s largest cricket stadium was inaugurated in Ahmedabad; this week, India won a test match inside two days. Yet, the headline controversy was not over what happened on the pitch but off it: the decision to name the stadium as the Narendra Modi stadium has sparked off much debate, primarily led by the opposition which saw this as an example of personal legacy building and classic narcissism. Well, its time to separate the noise from the news and tell it like it is.

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This has been a week where our cricketers have grabbed the headlines by comprehensively winning a test match against England and then being sold at astronomical prices in the IPL auction. And yet, this is a week that should leave any true cricket fan who looks at sport as a bridge builder in society rather depressed. I certainly am. Let me tell you why.