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When Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru played a cricket match

New Delhi: In 1953, a cricket match took place between the Prime Minister's XI  and the President's XI teams in Delhi.The spectators saw a thoughtful looking Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, wearing a spotless white cricket kit,



Cricket was then in its infancy in India, and for the hoi polloi the game was yet to catch up with hockey eulogised as the national game.