Delhi 28°38'16.27"N 77°14'35.55"E

For the last day of my voyage, I flew to Delhi, India. I explored around the town a bit, before heading to sleep. The next day I headed to the Feroz Shah Kotla Cricket grounds, where the international match between India and England was being played.

These international matches usually last five days, and are battles of endurance. England quickly tacked on run after run before India went on a hot streak to end the inning, already late at night. Delhi, on the north end of the Indian subcontinent, lies near the boundary between the Indian and Eurasian plates, a continental collision boundary. In this type of boundary, two continents crash into each other, and the only place they can go in up. This can also create earthquakes, such as the 2005 Kashmir earthquake or the 1950 Assam-Tibet earthquake, which had a magnitude of 8.6. It is this boundary that created the towering Himalayas, which are not volcanic because the magma has nowhere to flow up.

The next several days, England was able to barely hold onto the match, and India almost caught up, only losing by five runs. I flew back to Los Angeles the next day, after by around the world journey in the land of sports.

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The Himalayas, the tallest mountains in the world, were created along the collision boundary between the Indian and Eurasian plates.