Gandhi and cricket

Cricket might not have affected Gandhi, but Gandhi certainly affected cricket. The political movements he led and the social changes he sought to bring about had their consequences on how the game was played in the sub-continent. Click here to read a article in The Hindu, dated 2001, by Ramachandra Guha on Gandhi and cricket.

In the Mumbai-based tabloid, Mid Day, Clayton Murzello recaps his Pentrich to Pietermaritzburg train ride, where Gandhiji was thrown out of a first-class compartment in 1893, during the 2003 World Cup