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 Steveda!You'd expect a cricketer to be sporting. But Steve Waugh was more than that when he visited Udayan, a children's home in Barrackpore near Calcutta last week. Mobbed by the kids with cries of "Steveda!", Waugh let them smear gulal on his face, played cricket with them; raised Rs 20 lakh the night before from a sale of memorabilia for the new girls' wing he was there to inaugurate. The kids all knew him -- from an earlier visit in 1998. Said Steveda: "After being in five-star hotels all the time, it's a good experience to see how the average person lives." A gentleman in the game, still. YOU'RE THE JUDGE Show Them 2000 EVE |
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