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........

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