The Mumbai Metro doesn't seem to cease being a troublemaker for the city's several stakeholders. Young and budding cricketers are its latest victims. The Cross Maidan in Fort, which has long been a training ground for future cricketers, is in a bad shape for more than three months owing to the depleting levels of water in the borewells here. With gardeners unable to water the ground, cricket coach Vidyadhar Paradkar, who has been training players for over 40 years, blamed the ongoing Metro construction at Azad Maidan.

The gardeners at Cross Maidan are surprised at the borewells running dry for the first time ever. Pic/Ashish Raje