Diehard cricketer, Sept. 15 -- The fielders have to be on their toes here. A cover drive, cut, or a just a heave by a right-hander has to be stopped knowing exactly where the boundary ends. You have to be nothing short of a Jonty Rhodes to dive, slide or leap as a bit here or there could make you tumble down the hill. Good bye! Thank you! Don't expect a physio running towards you.
that is exactly what you have to be to play the 'Gentleman's game' on this small hillock next to Sumlar village, in Bandipora district around 60 kilometres to the north of Kashmir.
For years, the youth in the village played their gully cricket longing for an actual ground in the vicinity where they could enjoy the game with more freedom. They never got one. And ...