1 / 5The Cricket World Cup 2023 has begun, and there is considerable excitement among people about the match between India and Pakistan, which is scheduled for Saturday, 14 October 2023. For the third time, a jeweller in Ahmedabad has crafted a gold World Cup trophy that weighs only 0.9 grams and stands about one and a half centimetres tall.
2 / 5Rauf Sheikh, a resident of Jamalpur, Ahmedabad, has created this unique trophy for the third consecutive World Cup. He claims that the trophy is made of 22-carat gold. He crafted such a trophy for the first time in 2015. According to reports, he used 1.2 grams of gold for that trophy. In 2019, Sheikh created a World Cup trophy weighing 1 gram.
3 / 5This time, however, he has reduced the weight of the trophy, which has been crafted using only 0.9 grams of gold. Sheikh enjoys creating miniature items using gold and silver. His collection includes silver chariots, gold Rakhis, and gold Ganpati idols.
4 / 5Sheikh’s ambition is to create the lightest gold World Cup trophy and have it registered in the Guinness Book of World Records. In 2019, he missed setting a record by crafting a trophy that weighed 1 gram.
5 / 5Keeping this in mind, he has crafted this year’s World Cup trophy to weigh only 0.9 grams. He says it took him about two months to create the trophy. Sheikh hopes to present this trophy to the Indian captain at Ahmedabad's Narendra Modi Stadium during the India-Pakistan match on Saturday, 14 October 2023.
