Stumped! In and Out of the Gloves for Parthiv Patel

Akshobh Giridharadas
6 min readDec 14, 2020

I clearly remember that English summer of 2002.

I am dating myself now, but I was a teenager back then, but apropos of age that’s when I saw a cherubic young lad with a Peter Pan boyish face, barely older to me by a few years taking center-stage at Trent Bridge. Think Nottingham, think Robin Hood, and why he looked as young as any of his Merrie Men. But like Robin Hood facing…

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Akshobh Giridharadas

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