Laxmi and Devkumari Remi don’t watch the IPL. It’s gilli-danda season soon and they do watch T20, they are quick to add, and even quicker to say with no little pride that their classes, 11th and 12th, did well in the inter-class cricket tournament at school. The young allrounders from Ranamatiya tribal village in Chhattisgarh are fans of Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar – both those names now increasingly taken in the same breath around the country and both bringing as wide a smile in a fan – but after Saturday (May 21), a few more were added to their cricketers lexicon.
Rahul Dravid, Imran Tahir, JP Duminy, Rishabh Pant and Mayank Agarwal were the names painstakingly written down by the girls in borrowed scraps of paper as they got their stories ready to take back home after a fruitful visit to Raipur – for some their first time in the big city.
The girls were among a group of around 40 youngsters from Unicef’s ‘Team Swachh’ in the central Indian state who interacted with Delhi Daredevils representatives and shared success stories of their campaign against open defecation in their villages. Read more
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