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Watch: Dhoti-kurta clad players in unique cricket match with Sanskrit commentary

Varanasi's Sampurnanand Sanskrit University witnessed a unique cricket match on Tuesday with Dhoti-Kurta clad players giving their best in the middle along with commentary in Sanskrit.
Watch: Dhoti-kurta clad cricketers enthrall audience
NEW DELHI: Varanasi's Sampurnanand Sanskrit University witnessed a unique cricket match on Tuesday with Dhoti-Kurta clad players giving their best in the middle along with commentary in Sanskrit.
The match was organised on the occasion of the platinum jubilee celebrations of the university. The one-of-a-kind match was indeed a crowd puller as the ball-by-ball live commentary mesmerised everyone present at the university campus ground.

Cricket in dhotis, commentary in Sanskrit


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Not just the players but the on-field umpires were in traditional Indian attire too. Both the officiating umpires Dhiraj Mishra and Sanjeev Tiwari were former Ranji players.
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Cricket match with commentary in Sanskrit


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The players though looked completely comfortable running around, even in dhotis.

Sampurnanand Sanskrit University players don dhoti kurta in cricket match


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