Samastipur ka Lara, Najafgarh ka Nawab, God’s Bandra home: Cricketers change a place’s identity
By Sandeep Dwivedi••The Indian Express
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar have redrawn their surroundings. A small town has found fame, badlands outside Delhi have got a new hero and an up-market Mumbai suburb has turned into a pilgrimage for the faithful.
This season some insightful cricket-chatter from small-town maidans reached the IPL. It was about Little India’s eternal optimism of seeing the stalwart of the sport in their local stars. Like Malega…