Image of the day: Cricket in Rome. Yes, Italy!

Yes, cricket with all the pads and helmets. But, in Rome!  The NY Times has a neat story on this:

In these edgier patches of the city, whose schemers and dreamers were immortalized in the early 1960s by the film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, a new Rome is taking shape. It is filled with Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, Pakistanis, Indians and other immigrants who are quietly transforming the texture of one of Europe’s most homogeneous cities, blending their own traditions with a Roman accent.

Must be quite surreal to watch this live ...

As the sun began to set, one Green Bangla player called out from the bench to anyone who would listen. “Hey, look at me! I scored 50 points!” His accent, in flawless Italian, was as Roman as any Roman’s.

 It is one crazy world in which we live.  South Asians in Italy playing cricket.  And I, from India, drooling for pasta here in America.  I love this craziness :)

I suppose now the stereotypical "spicy meataballes" can mean a completely different kind of spice, eh!