Cricket

Brothers Naweed and Omaid today visited The Kia Oval as part of the Street Child United programme in association with Surrey Cricket Foundation.

Surrey County Cricket Club have partnered with the Foundation and Street Child United – alongside Kia UK, Wisden Cricket Monthly and the Authors XI Cricket Club – as part of the ‘A Life in Cricket’ campaign. Omaid and Naweed are part of The Street Child United and Surrey Cricket Foundation programme. From there, they journeyed into the kitchens at The Kia Oval and got to learn from our chef’s about what their role entails.

With Australia currently visiting India, and the IPL and World Cup to follow, we celebrate the romance of cricket travel.

As shown in the film ‘83’, K Srikkanth was happily fed by a South Indian family in the UK with an eligible daughter. Inspired by a meeting with Mother Teresa in the mid-90s, he also took on humanitarian work, teaming up with the Udayan foundation in Kolkata. On a lighter note, travelling for some Indian players in the old days meant a desperate hunt for satisfying vegetarian food. I wanted to get out of the hotel room. Sunil Gavaskar recently recalled his early days in the Mumbai cricket team, and trips made by train to play matches. The romance of cricket travel has added to the game’s image and literature. They stopped in Colombo to play a match and then continued to Australia. Imran Khan ran up a long list of conquests off the field wherever he went, and brought the kind of sex appeal to cricket that had not been seen before, or has been since. Playing in places along the route was a common feature those days. And again, it was travel that enabled minds to meet, for knowledge to pass. The season will culminate with the 50-over World Cup in India. It was hot, yet a cool breeze blew through the DY Patil Stadium intermittently, causing the yellow ribbons around the white covered chairs in a section of the stands to flutter.