Duleep Trophy: Fascinating cricket on cards
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Duleep Trophy: Fascinating cricket on cards

The Hindu  

The weather at Natham, a quiet village guarded by the Sirumalai Hills in southern Tamil Nadu, was capricious on Thursday. Cricket, to be played at the lovely NPR College Ground, over the next three weeks could well be as unpredictable and therefore fascinating. The pink ball, the floodlights and what seems a sporting wicket, with evident shades of green, could spice things up in the Duleep Trophy, which begins on Friday, with India Green taking on India Red. Read: A red-ball erudition for ‘Chahal sir’ The next three weeks would provide opportunities for many of them to try to make it — or get back on — to the big stage. Among them will be the wicket-keeping captain of India Green Parthiv Patel, whose last Test was in South Africa earlier this year, and the India Red skipper Abhinav Mukund, who scored 81 in his last Test innings, against Sri Lanka at Galle a year ago.

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