Yashpal Sharma's benefit tie today

NEW DELHI, APRIL 25. Most of the top names of Indian cricket will converge here for the Yashpal Sharma benefit match for the Oxemberg Cup.

The spectator response to Yashpal's benefit match would be interesting to see. A host of former players take the field playing under Kapil Dev (Kapil XI), quite a few them from Delhi, including Manoj Prabhakar.

In the Sachin XI are present players, including Azharuddin and Jadeja, who have been in the news for the past few weeks, and also youngsters like Amit Bhandari and Murali Kartik.

Yashpal, a gutsy batsman, was a member of the team which won the 1983 World Cup. For this match, however, he had to run from pillar to post to get it going in the prevailing atmosphere.

The benefit match for Yashpal was among a series of similar fixtures allotted by the Board to various cricketers though the rest were cancelled because they featured cricketers from South Africa.

Since Yashpal had opted for a match involving past and present Indian cricketers he was given the green signal. Yashpal's first- class career spanned almost two decades in which he played 37 Tests and 42 one-dayers.

Yashpal, a qualified first class umpire, coaches the Uttar Pradesh team and is also a television commentator.

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