Logic suggests New Zealand are up against it in Sunday’s T20 World Cup final against India.
After all, they are representatives of a country whose population (around 5.4 million) is only a little over half that of the city in which the final is being played (Ahmedabad is estimated to be home to around 9.3m). Plus, while cricket is the national obsession in India, it is not even the main sport in New Zealand.
And yet this is the fifth time out of the past 10 ICC competitions that the New Zealanders have made the final.
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