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| April 05, 2007 | Thursday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 16, 1428 |
Cricket banned in Indian villages
MUMBAI, April 4: Twenty-eight villages in the north Indian state of Haryana, which produced the country's greatest fast bowler Kapil Dev, have banned cricket barely two weeks after India’s World Cup first-round exit.
“We all have taken this decision and those who go against it will have to face social boycott. We've enshrined this in the Panchayat records of 28 villages,” said Tewa Singh, head of Dadan Panchayat.
“We will stop playing it (cricket). We will play kabaddi, football, volleyball and wrestle instead,” Pankaj, a villager, said.—Reuters
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