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When the Indian men’s cricket team take the field on Tuesday at the Sano Club ground in Tokyo for a highly anticipated friendly fixture against Japan, they will be welcomed by a crowd that mostly comprises Biharis.

According to Abhishek Anand, 28, who plays for the Japan national team but has not been picked in the squad for this particular fixture, there’s a huge population of IT students from Bihar, like himself, and neighbouring Jharkhand, who are employed with the tech sector here.