{"id":8035,"date":"2025-10-23T13:48:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8035"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:48:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:48:57","slug":"stadium-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8035","title":{"rendered":"Stadium Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short blog today!<\/p>\n<p>I was watching the <strong>Women&#8217;s World Cup<\/strong> cricket from <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>India<\/strong><\/span>. Today&#8217;s game was from the <strong>DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai.<\/strong> Those of you who have been reading this blog for a while will remember I have been twice to <strong>Mumbai<\/strong> to play cricket. My first time was February 24 and we were fortunate enough to play at the <strong>DY Patil Stadium<\/strong>&#8211; the crowd was significantly smaller than today&#8217;s game (there was about 20 + then) A couple of pictures from that memorable day!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/45b686fb-d8ab-4c73-b188-786569c13a86.jpg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8037\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=8037\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/45b686fb-d8ab-4c73-b188-786569c13a86.jpg?fit=960%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"45b686fb-d8ab-4c73-b188-786569c13a86\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/45b686fb-d8ab-4c73-b188-786569c13a86.jpg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/45b686fb-d8ab-4c73-b188-786569c13a86.jpg?fit=584%2C779&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8037\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/45b686fb-d8ab-4c73-b188-786569c13a86.jpg?resize=354%2C466&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"466\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4277-scaled.jpeg\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4277-scaled.jpeg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8038\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=8038\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4277-scaled.jpeg?fit=1920%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone SE (2nd generation)&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1707644495&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.99&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;20&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0018552875695733&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_4277\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4277-scaled.jpeg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4277-scaled.jpeg?fit=584%2C779&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8038\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4277.jpeg?resize=372%2C490&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The one below is my shirt airing at the end of the game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4293.jpeg?ssl=1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8036\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=8036\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4293.jpeg?fit=2016%2C1512&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2016,1512\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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I was watching the Women&#8217;s World Cup cricket from India. Today&#8217;s game was from the DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai. Those of you who have been reading this blog for a while will remember I have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8035\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D5Gc-25B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8040,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035\/revisions\/8040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}