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Sun, sand, sea and cricket
Gopal Paul: Bad light can't stop play at a beach on Mousuni Island, West Bengal
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Craig Angus: Playing cricket at Mtonga Bay, an extremely remote beach in the Transkei district of the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Umair Nisar: I am from Pakistan, but working as an engineer in South Korea. In September, I went to Gujora Beach in South Korea with my Pakistani and Korean friends. Our Korean friends played cricket with us for the first time in their life and they really enjoyed it. Many people around also really enjoyed watching us play
Mohit Sharma: We are a bunch of engineers from India now working in Canada. This shot was taken during our long weekend vacation at Flower pot Island, Tobermory, Ontario, Canada. We always have bat and balls in our cars wherever we go. We just need a little plain surface - we make our own rules and start playing. Street Cricket for Life!
Ananth Nibhanupudi: Cricket and castles. On a Goan beach, a sand castle at short third man doesn't seem to affect the action
Akash S Chavan: Bathed in cricket's warm glow. Time for some dusk cricket at Kovalam beach, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The young batsman is set to smash the ball, delivered by his father.
Deepan Palguna: On a rocky pitch. Team Peace, a bunch of engineers from Chennai, could not pass up an opportunity to play cricket when driving along the Big Sur coast of California. Instead of "rough" on the pitch, there was a rock that caused a few balls and a pair of sandals to get swallowed up by the Pacific Ocean.
Arifuddin Ahmed: A batsman at the Gokarna beach in Karnataka is silhouetted against the setting sun
Peter Smith: Playing summer cricket on Wharton Beach in January 2005, near Duke of Orleans Bay, east of Esperance, Western Australia
Warwick Madden: A game near the Heaphy Hut, Kahurangi National Park, South Island, New Zealand. The nearest road was over 20km walk away and we'd walked in some 60km from the other end. The young boy bowling carried his cricket bat the whole way!
Hitesh Mehta: Will he be bowled or not? The camels miss a bit of cricketing suspense at Diani beach, Kenya
Matt Murray: Cricket at low tide. Beach cricket at Victoria Point in the Redlands, about a 45-minute drive from the Gabba in Brisbane. You need to check the tide times before you set out for game, though, as you can only play here at low tide
Aadya Sharma: Jonty on the shore. A spectacular catch being completed (probably because of the fluffy cushion of beach sand). The moment came in the beaches of Maple, close to Manipal in south India.
Venki Umamaheswaran: The sheer length of Chennai's Marina Beach makes it perfect for hit-and-giggle cricket. This picture, at sunrise, shows a fan whose bowling bears some resemblance to Dale Steyn's
Julian R: Now that's a treacherous pitch. A rocky stretch forms the pitch for a friendly at Ruby Beach in Northwest Washington, USA
Anukrati Omar: "... And a fielder gets under it" The sun sets on a group of cricketers on the Colva Beach in Goa
Sandy Geeganage: Playing cricket in swimming trunks, on a sandbar in the Nilaveli Lagoon, Northeastern Province, Sri Lanka
Sridhar Mahadevan: Clouds, cricket and spectators at Besant Nagar beach in Chennai, India
Devdatta Arun Gholkar: A misty winter morning and a game of cricket,
a rock solid sight screen and a damp wicket at Ratnagiri, on the western coast of India
Mariappan Subramanian: Sun, shadow, silhouette at the Mararikulam beach on the south-western coast of India. The sun rays piercing through the clouds give the picture a rare other-worldly charm.
Abhishek Rana: What could be better than the combination of sun, sand, sea and cricket? This tourist has it all, as he enjoys the afternoon calm on Nirvana Beach in Gokarna
Bappaditya Gole: The sunlight reflecting off the wet sand at Kudle beach near Gokarna in Karnataka makes it look like the silhouetted batsman is playing on a shiny pitch. And he's playing a rather photo-perfect flick shot, invoking some of Azharuddin's insouciance
Muhammad Nadir Khan: There's more than one use for the surfboard at Surfside Beach, Texas
Abdul Gafoor Mohamed Hassan: An afternoon's cricket gets underway in Colombo, with the sea as a backdrop
Sijas Purayil: A high backlift is spotted on Muzahappilangad Beach, Kerala, India
Arjun Rao: The carefreeness of childhood, the freedom of the ocean, the excitement of cricket... At Vizag beach, India