One company gave an off, another offered Rs. 100 crore… here are all the promises made leading up to the World Cup finals.
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00:00A marketing agency in Gurugram gave its employees a day off to mourn India's loss at the ICC
00:06Cricket World Cup.
00:08This leave was in the wake of India's loss.
00:11But what if India had won?
00:12These companies and people had proposed unique offerings if Team India had brought home the
00:18trophy.
00:22Astrotalk CEO Puneet Gupta said he would deposit Rs 100 crore into his users' wallets, divided
00:28equally among them.
00:34He also reminisced about India's last World Cup win in 2011 and wanted to share the same
00:43happiness with the users of his Astrology Predictions app.
00:50Local savings app MagicPin announced it would hoist a 200-foot Indian flag on its Gurugram
00:56offices' façade if India won the World Cup.
00:59It also started the If India Wins challenge, encouraging users to tweet about what they
01:05would do if India won.
01:09In Chandigarh, an auto-rickshaw driver said he would have given free rides for five days
01:15had India won the trophy.
01:16Anil Kumar, who had been driving an auto-rickshaw in the city for 12 years, always offered free
01:21rides for a day during India-Pakistan matches.
01:25And he upped the ante for the World Cup.
01:41A school in Faridabad postponed its unit tests for several grades because of the World Cup
01:46finals.
01:47D.A.V.
01:48Public School in Sector 14 issued a circular that said the tests were pushed due to numerous
01:53requests by the students.
01:56School Principal Anita Gautam asked the students to do well in the exams and pray for the Indian
02:00team.
02:01Mattress and Furniture brand Wakefit's Ahmedabad store announced that they would provide free
02:07stay in the store to people who travelled to the city for the match but couldn't get
02:12accommodation.
02:13Customers just needed to show their match ticket to sleep there for free.
02:17News reports showed that most hotels in the city were sold out months ago because of the
02:21finals and prices had skyrocketed up to Rs. 2 lakh per night.
02:28Several food outlets as well as delivery app Zomato offered free food if India won.
02:34Zomato said it would provide free dinner to 10 people who liked their post about the match.
02:39A restaurant in Kanpur called Ahar Club offered free food to all customers who came by on
02:45match day.
02:46All they had to do was show a screenshot of their owner's tweet to avail the offer.
02:51Even a dhaba in Chandigarh had offered free Kadhi Chawal had India won the match.
02:55As for Team India, the ICC has awarded them $2 million as prize money for becoming runners-up
03:02and they would also get money for group stage wins.