Cricket, the national game of India or should I say passion or even religion. Cricketers are seen as gods and cricket brings people together of all religions to celebrate and party when India are winning.
Traveling around India I found young boys playing cricket everywhere and anywhere at the space behind a church, in a small glade between fields, alongside the railway tracks. I saw fishermen’s children play on the sands. I saw scull-capped boys bat it out at a madrasa. I saw it played on the banks of the Yamuna with Taj Mahal in the background and I saw it played among the gravestones at a graveyard in Bangalore. I saw small monks bat it out outside their monastery and schoolboys play it in the backyard of schools. I saw boys play it in the swamps and I saw grown men wait their turn to bat at the Shivaji Stadium in Mumbai- the hallowed grounds from where the journey of most Indian cricketing stars began. Town or village, young or old everyone was playing cricket.