Young love

Schoolboy Pranav Dhanawade's recent 1009 not out might have made it into official records, but for many of us it was also a reminder of the game as it is played outside the confines of the international circuit, and especially of the particular enjoyment you got from cricket as a child.

Sometimes, before the enjoyment came the waiting, like in the above photo, taken in New Delhi in 2009. For all of Bradman's knocking the ball against a water tank, most of us prefer the less solitary way, of playing with friends.

Prince Charles (playing at Hill House at age eight here) may never have had the problem of mustering up a gang to play with. His mum could have called for a stadium-full of them, couldn't she?

The fielding side is on top here. Because… that dude's a ledge-andary street cricketer. Jodhpur, 2009.

There are two games being played out here at the North Sydney Oval in 2006. Only one of them looks action-packed.

Cricket in the rain? Yes, it's possible. Mumbai, 2007.