Sep 28, 2014
Popular news anchor Rajdeep Sardesai, the son of former Indian great Dilip Sardesai currently with the TV Today group and formerly with NDTV and CNN-IBN, was manhandled and slapped in a skirmish with one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s supporters outside Madison Square Garden in New York, where the PM will be addressing a gathering with more than 40,000 supporters.
Rajdeep, who was educated in Oxford played seven First-Class matches. He scored 63 not out (his only fifty) against Kent, whose attack was led by a certain Derek Underwood, who had removed him in the first innings.
He was dismissed seven more times, the wicket-takers included illustrious names of the game such as Eddie Hemmings, Allan Donald, and Abdul Qadir — so he cannot really be blamed for his average of 27.75. However, the most spectacular dismissal came against Cambridge University in his last First-Class match: he scored 40 in his last innings, but fell leg-before to the vicious leg-breaks of a certain Michael Atherton.