Shami -- certainly a star .... in 2023 World Cup .... his performance is "a wicket every 11 balls"

"And what a World Cup it has been. Mohammed Shami has a tournament-high 23 wickets at 9.13, with a wicket on average every 11 balls. He needs four more in Sunday’s final to match Glenn McGrath and Mitchell Starc as the most-prolific bowler at a single World Cup." - The Guardian 

Indian socio-political world is seemingly polarised. And hence reporting from Ahmedabad, Barney Ronay points up - 

"The 33-year-old who lived in a tent as a junior and is a high-profile Muslim is close to writing his name in the history books"

 Shami’s World Cup of the gods is a genuine outsider story, the tale of the 33-year-old fast-medium seamer who came in from the cold. Albeit, with some slightly jarring details that have been a little glossed in a nation consumed by cricket, success and, above all, Indian cricket success.

A few years back, Shami was sleeping in a groundsman’s tent in Kolkata and playing semi-professional cricket at a level where he was once awarded a mutton biryani for taking a five-fer. Fast-forward to the lighted stage on Wednesday, (Nov 15) night and Shami’s seven wickets were rewarded with a message from the prime minister, and with the news, as reported in 'the Economic Times,' that his brand endorsement fee had already doubled during the World Cup, with offers flooding in from fast-food and electronics companies. 

‘Virat Kohli has been incredible: to score 711 runs, and pass 50 in eight out of 10 innings, is astonishing consistency’

"Unconscious bias may be behind some of the negativity around this World Cup, but the home team’s brilliance is indisputable" -- writes Mark Ramprakash

"While India’s top five batters have averaged 67.63, the top five in teams facing them have averaged just 26.06. Then they have the spin of Ravindra Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav, players good enough to keep the class of Ravichandran Ashwin out of the side. They are a complete team and it is no surprise that they have won every game: the greatest threat to that record has been complacency, because they are far and away the best side in the tournament. There has been no sign of that."