7 instances when non-cricketers tried their hand at cricket

#2 Fernando Llorente

After winning the World Cup with Spain, Fernando Llorente spent the next summer in India as the ambassador of ‘Save the Children’ campaign to raise awareness about the deaths of over 2 million children in India every year.

The Sevilla forward not only displayed the size of his heart, but also his skill at cricket as he didn’t let go of the opportunity to play cricket and lined up against kids to play a game of gully cricket.

Seeing the tall forward play the game was one of the rarest sight as cricket in Spain is like good music in party songs, let alone a Basque man playing it in a rural village in India.

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