Tune in to the U-19 World Cup, and regional South Asian dialects would be almost as audible as the English twang. There is a Hindi speaker in 10 of the 16 teams that participate in the tournament; there is at least one cricketer who understands Punjabi in seven teams; and one who can speak Gujarati, Telugu and Malayalam in four teams. There are Urdu, Tamil, Sinhala, and Marathi speakers in teams from outside the Subcontinent. Among the 240 cricketers that have........

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