- Title: INDIA: CRICKET - Indian wish national cricket team luck through art
- Date: 11th March 2007
- Summary: PURI. ORISSA, INDIA (MARCH 10, 2007) (ANI) A CRICKET STADIUM AND WORLD CUP TROPHY MADE OF SAND SAND ARTIST SUDARSHAN PATNAIK SPRINKLING GREEN COLOURED SAND TO RESEMBLE GRASS FANS PUTTING FLAGS OF DIFFERENT NATIONS ON THE SAND WALLS PATNAIK WRITING "ICC" (INTERNATIONAL CRICKET COUNCIL) IN SAND A GIANT CRICKET BALL AND BAT IN SAND PATNAIK WRITING GOOD WISHES TO TEAM INDIA ON THE GIANT BAT CAMERAMEN TAKING PICTURES PATNAIK WORKING ON SAND STADIUM (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) SUDARSHAN PATNAIK, SAND ARTIST, SAYING: "The way the whole country is supporting team India, we also thought we should support them in a unique way. Every year, we make sculptures for them, but this time we have made a different sculpture, which is a movable trophy. It took us 15 days to prepare this movable trophy. We plan to carry it from Puri to the West Indies." (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) SUMATI ANAND, TOURIST, SAYING: "It's a very nice thing that cricket fever has gripped the entire country. This sculpture is a different way of expression to cheer the team. Patnaik has really spent effort in making this thing, which is not even permanent. The team should take inspiration from this that someone has spent so much of time and energy in making this and they should bring the Cup."
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- Location: India
- Country: India
- Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Sport
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- Story Text: Giant sand sculptures and a painting add to the support given by Indian fans to their cricket team. Indian artists are joining in the excitement before the start of the cricket World Cup tournament in the West Indies.
On Saturday (March 10) people gathered on the beach at Puri in Orissa to view the sculptures made by sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik.
In the same way that the artist made sculptures of the football World Cup trophy and a giant football, this year he made a cricket stadium and trophy to celebrate the opening ceremony of the cricket World Cup in Jamaica, and he also made a giant sculpture of a cricket bat and ball.
This time the World Cup trophy is portable and Patnaik will carry it all the way to the West Indies.
"The way the whole country is supporting team India, we also thought we should support them in a unique way. Every year we make sculptures for them but this time we have made a different sculpture, which is a movable trophy. It took us 15 days to prepare this movable trophy. We plan to carry it from Puri to the West Indies," Patnaik said.
Patnaik said his World Cup Trophy had a concrete base and weighed nearly 50 kilograms.
Cricket fans have been writing good luck messages on the giant bat.
Elsewhere, in western Ahmedabad city, a fiery artwork is an artist's way of wishing luck to the Indian team.
Mohsin Sheikh depicted the Indian cricket team as an aggressive batsman demolishing competition at the World Cup.
Sheikh said the painting showed the cricketer with the trophy at his head, hitting the letters of his opposition's names high and wide.
India, along with 15 other countries, will play for the game's most coveted prize over the next six weeks and there is great excitement among Indians.
The men in blue will play Bangladesh on March 17 and Indians across the country are stirring up support with "Cheer for India" campaigns. The winner will be crowned after the final in Barbados on April 28.
India, the 1983 winners, was the runners-up in the last cricket world cup in South Africa. - Copyright Holder: ANI (India)
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