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Hassan Kausar: Multiple cricket matches in progress under venerable, old trees on a late summer evening at dusk at the Walled City of Lahore. The adjoining areas provide badly needed lung space for the cricket loving inhabitants living in the well-populated Walled Street. The game goes on for as long as there's sunlight.
Saumava Mitra: I was filling in an Eid day afternoon with a visit to the ruins of the Darul Aman palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, where I am presently staying for my PhD research. I had heard and read much about the emerging cricket scene in Afghanistan but had not seen much of the game being played till then. I was pleasantly surprised when I looked over the ridge in front of the palace and saw a game in progress at the promenade. The field setting was sparse and the spectators only a couple of kids with a bicycle. The sun was burning and the pitch too dusty. But the setting... only in Kabul are such majestic vistas possible.
Kaushal Adhikari: This picture was taken during the time of Dashain - Nepal's largest and most popular festival. Schools remain closed for nearly a month during this time of the year, and children enjoy their time playing cricket during these holidays. Given the lack of open space in the capital city of Kathmandu, children make use of any available space, and trash cans double up as wickets - anything to pursue their passion.
Rohit Verma: Life at the Nesang village, in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district, is still bereft of shopping malls, bars and pubs. The village lads play cricket day in and day out. As can be seen in the picture, the field is heavily packed on the off-side, the reason being the risk of ball going down the cliff on that side. Fields are set according to that and so are the bowling lines. Swipes across the line are manufactured, but there is no next level for the Glenn Maxwells and Ross Taylors that emerge here.
Ajinkya Jain: It's a beautiful monsoon evening, and Mumbaikars need no invite to play their favourite game. This picture depicts a game of club cricket being played at the historical Oval Maidan of Mumbai. The famous Rajabai Clock Tower and the Bombay Stock Exchange can be seen in the background.
Ajay Padwal: It was the month of March. I was at my native place Rajapur, almost 400 km to the south of Mumbai. One morning I was trying out my new point and shoot camera. I found my nephew and his friends aged around 10-12 years playing cricket in the nearby empty rice farms. It was box cricket with lot of modified rules to suit the players and the ground. There were no spectators and no cheering. The only sound came from the mothers shouting at the kids, asking them to get ready for school, and suddenly they all disappeared.
Niyantha Shekar: We were in the village of Tosh in Himachal Pradesh when we saw a kid, bat in hand, throw a ball up onto a corrugated metal roof and then slam it back up when it rolled down.
"Can we join you?" I asked.
"Cricket!" shouted the boy in joy, and then yelled for his brother to come out and play
Syed Hasnain: Locals enjoy a spot of summer afternoon cricket at Fairy Meadows in Pakistan, with the mighty mountain Nanga Parbat as the backdrop, and a pine-tree forest as the sightscreen
T Jeyanthan: It's lunch at the South Africa v Sri Lanka Test at the SSC, but fans continue to play on the sidelines
Usman Jami: The last man was in, and everyone came in for the catch during this Southern California Cricket Association league game between the Regal CC and the Casuals CC, circa June 2014 at Highland
Ananth Nibhanupudi: On a Goan beach, a sand castle at short third man doesn't seem to affect the action
Harish Kumar: Cricket can be played anywhere. Even this tiny opening in the midst of thickly wooded hills at Haflong in southern Assam. The players are clearly unmindful of the approaching locomotive. The game continued until the train chugged into the platform, and resumed soon after.
Jonathan Campion: A scene from the first ever competitive game of cricket to be played in Budva, Montenegro. It was won by the British side Carmel & District CC. The Montenegro XI featured Antipodean and English expat yachtsmen from the local port. The bowler in this photo is Saša Ilić, the former goalkeeper for Charlton Athletic and the Serbian national team.
Walter Mears: Joanna Konczak's photograph of cricket in Warsaw brought back memories of an 'England versus Australia' match which was played at the National Stadium in Warsaw in 1980 when the country was far from free. The players were all expatriates or diplomats working in Poland. As you can see, the match did not draw a big crowd and the batsman (me) did not have an elegant forward defensive shot. Not long after the match, Poland descended into martial law. I am delighted to see that cricket continues to expand its frontiers.
Joanna Konczak: On the 4th of June I was asked by friends to take few photos of them practising cricket drills in a park in Warsaw. The day was not quite ordinary, it marked the 25th anniversary of the first free parliamentary elections in Poland that happened after years of restrictions of the communist rule. I noticed a hint of red on a friend's white outfit - the national colours. And suddenly I realized that if not for 25 years of freedom, we probably wouldn't be here, playing a strange foreign game we came to know because of the travels. On that lazy sunny afternoon, with warm light giving the bowler a fairy-tale look, cricket seemed such a perfect metaphor of freedom.
Raj and Julie Verma shot this snap at the Bradman Oval in Bowral where their son's team was playing in end of autumn. The orange leaves provide a nice backdrop to the scene.
Venkat Madhav is a software professional in an MNC. He plays cricket with friends regularly during weekends to compensate for five-day long hectic work schedules. They have an open area near their residential apartments good enough for playing competitive cricket. In order to occupy the ground, they have to wake up as early as 5 AM in the morning and rush to occupy the playing field by planting their stumps. What ensues is a game between a gang of 13 software professionals and a bunch of cricket enthusiasts who work for different software firms. They play a monthly series of friendly T20 matches. Who ever arrives last is handed the responsibilities of funding refreshments for the group. This ensures that no one turns up late and the games begin on time.
Faizan Ahmad: Youngsters playing cricket at a busy street in Lahore on a Sunday morning isn't unusual. But their usage of crates in place of stumps, is.
Liam Burnell: Inclusivity - that's the name of the game! This picture was taken at an orphanage run by the Roger Milla foundation on a recent Cricket Without Boundaries trip to Cameroon. The nun who ran the orphanage, was so interested in what was going on she wanted to have a bat herself. This is the second ball she faced, and she decided to dance down the wicket to one of our team members, much to their bemusement. Cricket Without Boundaries works in Africa to develop cricket in Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Botswana and Cameroon, while also helping to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS among the younger population. This was my 2nd CWB trip, and I've loved every minute. I'm currently on my gap year before I head to the University of York to study Psychology in September. Looking forward to another summer of cricket with Steeple Langford CC in the heart of Wiltshire!
Suresh Haridas: One morning during my short vacation in February this year, I was at a beach in Kozhikode, Kerala, when I chanced upon a highly competitive tennis-ball cricket match. The players looked like regulars, and I was lucky enough to capture an action shot of the moment after the bowler has released the ball, and before the batsman has played a shot.
Arjun Nageswaran: I am a 11 year-old boy who lives in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. This is a picture of me playing cricket with my two friends. I am the batsman. We played in the snow and the rule was that if it went past the snow, it would be a 4. Whenever the ball landed in the snow, we would pick it up and in the process create footprints in the snow that would last a long time. I hit the next ball past the snow and got a 4, but got my trousers wet from the snow.
Sarvesh Joshi: Kids on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi, India, don't let the lack of equipment dampen their enthusiasm for a game of cricket
Waseem Ahmed: A nice looking check drive lights up a game of cricket at the high-altitude Rakaposhi base camp in the Hunza valley, Gilgit, Pakistan
Jyoti Omi Chowdhury: This photo was taken during a visit to Panam, one of the oldest cities (now abandoned) in South Asia. As the civilization encroached the ancient with it's bleakness, this newly filled up marshland became a de facto cricket field. I am a war theorist and a photographer. My work has been featured in Vogue Italia, Light and Composition Magazine among many other outlets. My work can be found on www.omigraphy.com
Hautahi Kingi: This photo was taken at Dryden Lake in upstate New York - not your regular cricketing outpost. We were ice-fishing in -20 degree Celsius weather and the fish weren't biting. So I thought we could crack out the cricket bat and roll the arm over for a few overs to warm up. Needless to say, the icy pitch didn't provide too much assistance for the bowlers. I am a New Zealander studying at Cornell University as a graduate student. My mates in the picture are Americans and Canadians who are slowly learning the subtleties of the beautiful game.
Musab Omer: It's tough to find large, open spaces to play cricket in Delhi. Musab and his friends got lucky when they discovered this park in the Hauz Khas Village, right behind an old historic fort. It's now the venue for frequent tennis ball matches - mostly a series of five games of 5 or 6 overs each. Refreshments are on the losing team, so these games are quite intensely battled. This picture was taken by Sameer, one of Musab's friends. Sameer was transiting through Delhi to take an outbound flight at 12 pm, but his incoming train was delayed so much that he missed the flight. He ended up joining the gang at their game, and clicked this picture when Musab was in the middle of a double-wicket maiden.
Shwetank Upadhyay: The hills of Leh in the background and the sun in our eyes made this one of the most enchanting settings for cricket. For the record, the team batting first scored a modest score 13 in 6 overs, and then went on to successfully defend it as well.
What could be better than the combination of sun, sand, sea and cricket? This tourist has it all, as he enjoys the afternoon calm on Nirvana Beach in Gokarna
A boy attempts to dispatch a tennis ball into the crowded settlement on the banks of the River Ganga, in Varanasi
Fans and players celebrate victory after an intense match in Gopeshwar, Uttarakhand, India.
Aman Jain: Runs and rains
Aman Jain: Slippery pitch
Arifuddin Ahmed: Children playing cricket near the Mahakala temple in Ratnagiri, an ancient Buddhist site in Odisha, India
Saransh Sehgal: The banks of the Ganges in Varanasi host a game of tennis-ball cricket
Ananthasubramanian N: A white-browed wagtail is about to step into the field of play
Aayush Modi: The Burj Khalifa, and some stunning weather, presides over a game of cricket
Aayush Modi: A spectacular catch being completed on the North California beach
Kaushik H Sivaj: My friends and I settle down to a game of cricket during the summer vacations in Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu
Kokan Star CC prepare for a match against the Sharjah Cement Factory team, at the Sharjah Cement Factory Ground
Beach cricket at Victoria Point in the Redlands, about a 45-minute drive from the Gabba. You need to check the tide times before you set out for game, though, as you can only play here at low tide
This is a photo taken at an altitude of 12,000ft in Kashmir, near Lake Satsar. We were hiking there and we played a cricket match with our tour guides. Hiking poles became the stumps, a log of wood became a bat and we had a tennis ball with us
A rocky stretch forms the pitch for a friendly at Ruby Beach in Northwest Washington, USA
A friendly between two North London based teams, taking advantage of a summer that's lasted longer than expected
An afternoon of cricket at the University Of Sabaragamuwa in Sri Lanka
An impromptu game of cricket underway near the Gateway of India in Mumbai, on the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's birthday. The bowling captain seems to have done his best to plug the holes in his field with his team-mates' rides
Hamza Safdar: Cricket gear, cricket equipment and a cricket field are all strictly optional when playing in the Pakistani countryside
Adeel Ahmed: What do you do at 8am on a misty Canadian morning? Play cricket, of course. Here a few players warm-up before the final game of the season, between Mississauga Dolphins Cricket Association and SuperStars Cricket Club, in Mississauga, 20kms away from Toronto
Amin Huq: This is a photo of me playing a forward defence for Gymkhana Cricket Club against a local Thai team, Doi Saket Cricket, in Chiang Mai. In the background is the granite mountain, Doi Suthep
Usman: Boys play tennis-ball cricket in Fairy Meadows, Pakistan, near the base camp of ninth-highest peak in the world: Nanga Parbat, also known as the killer mountain because of how notoriously difficult it is to climb
A group of students play on at a Hyderabad college campus, regardless of the poor visibility
Abdul Gafoor Mohamed Hassan: An afternoon's cricket gets underway in Colombo, with the sea as a backdrop
A bunch of kids in India gets around a paucity of stumps quite ingeniously
Jijin Raveendran: Bad light doesn't stop play at a game of cricket in Kannur, Kerala
Sachin Bamare: Cricket at a fort
Naveen Gupta: Playing to the gallery
Sadananda Aithal: Chasing the pot of gold
Aadya Sharma: Jonty on the shore. A spectacular catch being completed (probably because of the fluffy cushion of beach sand). The moment came in the beaches of Maple, close to Manipal in south India.
Joanna Konczak: Birds interrupt play
Venki Umamaheswaran: The sheer length of Chennai's Marina Beach makes it perfect for hit-and-giggle cricket. This picture, at sunrise, shows a fan whose bowling bears some resemblance to Dale Steyn's
Romel Bishop: This photo was taken at Bath, St.John, Barbados during a picnic in March 2013. Amateur cricketers are known to be quite innovative in finding substitutes for cricketing gear. Here, the group placed a barrel behind the batsman since they didn't have stumps. A pretty huge barrel at that, tilting the scales in the bowler's favour.
Siddhartha Ray: Bats for sale
Razzaq Siddiqui: Defending the fortress
Vibhash Awasthi: Follow the bounce
Bappaditya Gole: The sunlight reflecting off the wet sand at Kudle beach near Gokarna in Karnataka makes it look like the silhouetted batsman is playing on a shiny pitch. And he's playing a rather photo-perfect flick shot, invoking some of Azharuddin's insouciance
Mariappan Subramanian: Sun, shadow, silhouette at the Mararikulam beach on the south-western coast of India. The sun rays piercing through the clouds give the picture a rare other-worldly charm.
Umang Shah: Army games
Siva Kumar: Batting on a wet pitch
Will Sobczak: A cricket snow man padded up and ready to bat
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