31 January 2015

World Cup: Don’t give up the fight - Livemint

World Cup: Don’t give up the fight - Livemint

The cricket team didn’t  even have a “national” anthem till 20 years ago. And yet the crowds thronged Sabina Park and the Bourda to watch them; their aura resonated from the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados, to the Kennington Oval in London. So how could a young boy growing up in Communist Kolkata, where footballers struck an early blow against colonialism, brought up on stories of revolution and class struggle, resist? I didn’t even try.

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