India, May 6 -- Former England football team manager Gareth Southgate admitted to being a cricket fan as he travelled to India to watch a couple of Rajasthan Royals' matches in the IPL. Southgate showed his support towards the inaugural champions by wearing their T-shirt and sitting in their dugout. He was there at Eden Gardens to witness the edge of a thriller between KKR and RR, where the visitors suffered a nervy 1-run defeat in the end.

Southgate walked down memory lane and recalled the time when he used to watch Test cricket all day during the legendary era of Kapil Dev and Sunil Gavaskar.

"Very often, when you play at Wembley, the crowd is a little bit quieter. I have always been a fan of cricket. When I was a young kid, I used to...