At an age when most in their late fifties show up at the ground only to drop off their children, 58-year-old G Ravichandran walks in with his son and gets ready to train himself. And he is not the only ‘senior’ cricketer showing up season after season in Tamil Nadu Cricket Association’s (TNCA) lower division leagues, defying stiff joints and the idea that sport belongs to the young. Among them is 71-year-old S Madhavan, who loops in leg-breaks for the Madras University Union in the fifth division as cheerfully as he did as a young lad in school. Ask him why he still plays, and he sums it up simply: “I like to play cricket.” Many of these men walked into club cricket when the city was ‘Madras’ and decades later, still haven’t found a reason to walk out. Some have returned after retiring

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