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Cricket gaining a foothold in George Washington University campus |
The game of cricket, it seems, is picking up in university campuses in the Washington
D.C. area. Americans, Indians and Pakistani undergrads are making sure that the
sport gains ina foothold in places like George Washington University, holding
practice sessions before an actual match. Most of them such as Ishaan Prakash,
20, and Ankit Sheth, a team founder, say there have been a lot of barriers that
have had to be overcome. Some students like 20-year-old Muslim-born sophomore
Mustafa Karim revel in the excitement of the game, swinging his cricket bat and
knocking the ball over the fence for six. On getting out,he strolls to the sidelines
and is greeted with a flurry of high-fives and back slaps. The fact that he scored
just 20 runs is inconsequential. The game is between undergraduates and a team
of George Washington University graduate students and attracted just three spectators,
who sat in the shade on a hill overlooking the field. The team was started two
years ago by Ali Sternberg and Ankit Sheth. For the record, the GWU undergrads
beat the graduate students, 87 runs all out in 20 overs to 62 runs all out in
15.2 overs, numbers that would be gibberish to most Americans. |
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