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'Sir ko sab pata hai' - Fans react as Virender Sehwag's old tweet mentioning India as 'Bharat' resurfaces

India have often been referred as Bharat in discussions and now the change has officially been made. Bharat has often been used in Hindi.

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India has had a rich cricketing history over the years. The country attained Test status in 1932 and then had breakthrough tours in 1971 in the West Indies and England. The Men in Blue also did attain the number one Test ranking under the leadership of MS Dhoni. The Men in Blue have also won two World Cups. On another note in a landmark ruling 'India' has changed its name to Bharat as a country.

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Virender Sehwag also took to Twitter to share the news, an old tweet of the former Indian opener talking about the name change has gone viral. A lot of the fans lauded Sehwag for making the prediction well before the actual news came out. The current government in power has changed the names of a lot of cities and it was only a matter of time as to something like this happened.

The 2023 World Cup will be held in India. It will be played in 10 venues. When it comes to the tournament, it will be held in 10 venues. India themselves will play each of their league games in 10 different venues. The format that will be followed is the round-robin which was played in 2019. England won the World Cup in 2019 and will want to try and defend their title in India.

Yuzevndra Chahal and Sanju Samson did not make the cut to the World Cup squad

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India's squad for the ODI World Cup was announced. the likes of Tilak Varma, Yuzvendra Chahal, R Ashwin, Sanju Samson and Prasidh Krishna did not make the cut to the World Cup squad. Rohit Sharma's devils will want to script history as India did in 2011 on home soil at the Wankhede in Mumbai. Rohit Sharma will be playing his first ODI World Cup as India skipper.

When it comes to the Asia Cup, Both India and Pakistan are through to the Super Fours with three points in their kitty. The Super Four games will be taking place at Hambantota due to rains in Colombo. Here is a look at India's 15-member World Cup squad-

India squad for World Cup 2023: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, KL Rahul, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya (vc), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, and Mohammed Siraj.

Let us take a look at the reactions on Twitter:

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