Cricket Star's Sickness Shows Dengue’s Rising Danger: Prognosis

A person watches the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup final match between India and Australia on a mobile phone at a butcher's shop in Old Delhi, India. One of the team’s players was hampered by dengue, whose rates are on the rise.

Photographer: Saumya Khandelwal/Bloomberg

Greetings, it’s Chris and Bhuma in Mumbai, which has seen a worrying surge in dengue infections. But before that...

Shubman Gill was well on course to score a coveted century, or 100 runs, during the men’s Cricket World Cup semi-final against New Zealand this month when the Indian opening batter suddenly seized up and hobbled off the field.