Gandhi’s Gripe With Cricket

Cricket has fallen from grace for Dilip Prabhavalkar, especially the IPL.

The versatile Marathi actor Dilip Prabhavalkar, known nationally for playing Gandhi in Lage Raho Munnabhai, was at a chat in Mumbai over the weekend. Prabhavalkar, a colossus in Marathi culture, is also a writer and sports lover. In the 1980s, he would write satirical pieces on cricket and other sports in the popular Marathi sports publication Ekach Shatkar, the editor of which was former cricketer and current chief selector Sandeep Patil. But cricket has fallen from grace for Prabhavalkar, especially the IPL. “When what’s available in the stores comes down to the street, it loses value,” in his words.

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