For budding cricketer Deepak Gupta (15) and his teammates, picking up rubbish instead of practising their cricketing strokes at Azad Maidan is now part and parcel of the game. Within a span of 10 days, they have had to clean up discarded paper plates, empty water bottles, and plastic covers from the Azad Maidan twice.

Not a level playing field: Two U-16 cricketers level the cricket pitch after MNS workers who gathered for the protest rally damaged it yesterday.u00a0