Team India, batting for England, Windies, Canada…

The most sought-after player here has already played international cricket, and impressed. ‘‘I have no idea about my roots, mate’’, he says. What he does know, however, is that as the first ‘‘India’’ fast bowler to play for the West Indies, ‘‘I could start a trend and the team needs good bowlers. All-rounders too, and I am working on my batting, to be able to get into the Test team.’’ It helps, of course, that most of the big locals are ‘‘too Americanised’’ and have moved to basketball

Ravinder Bopara (England)

Born in Essex where his parents — you guessed it — ran a corner shop till three years ago. A batting all-rounder, he’s been an Essex regular for a year now and wants desperately to play ‘‘at least one season in India, maybe for a club, to pick up playing against quality spin’’. But is wary of how the people there might look at an Indian from England.

Tishan Maraj (West Indies)

From Trinidad is the part-cricketer part-medicine man. Cricket is a serious hobby, but if he doesn’t make it up the ladder quick enough, ‘‘I have a government scholarship to study medicine, so I will use that.’’ Maraj also says that it’s no problem for Indians to play the game of their choice, they face no discrimination

Shakti Prasad Gauchan (Nepal)

Opening batsman and skipper of the tournament’s surprise package, Gauchan isn’t, strictly speaking, Indian. But his father was an Indian army officer, he was born in Gorakhpur and spent most of his 19 years in this country. ‘‘You can’t call me Indian, but I have spent so long in India, and I have studied in India’’, he says

Samit Patel (England)

Nottinghamshire’s two-drop batsman has shown in this tournament that he has what it takes to reach the top level. ‘‘I have been told by my seniors that I should be able to make it to the England team soon’’, he says. The background is a bit fuzzy, but ‘‘I am a Patel, and my parents had moved to England a few years ago from Gujarat’’, he explains

Rajeev Routray (Scotland)

The medium pacer has had a torrid time in Dhaka since Shikhar Dhawan and Suresh Raina tore into him in the very first match. But that hasn’t deterred the Scot, though his confidence is a tad diminished. ‘‘We are not pros in Scotland, but there’s a chance that things will change. I will have to work much harder if I want to play county cricket or take up cricket as a career’’, says Routray

Shaheed & Aabid Keshvani (Canada)

The off-spinner and medium pacer have been in the starting line-up right through the tournament, but the team hasn’t impressed and neither have they. Canada have several ‘‘Indians’’ (skipper Umar Bhatti, Trevin and Gavin Bastiampillai, Muhammad Qazi, Ryan Lall, Soham Anjaria, Karun Jethi and Krunalbhai Patel).

The Keshvanis, sons of a former Kenya national team player, were born a year apart and have cut their amateur cricket teeth together. Now ‘‘it’s to move to the national team gradually’’, as Shaheed says

Dinesh Ramdin (West Indies)

West Indies captain, Ramdin, like Rampaul, defies the Indian stereotype: he’s a wicketkeeper, where most ‘‘Indians’’ have been batsmen or spinners. ‘‘I became a wicketkeeper because I liked being involved with the game’’, something that might have helped his ascent to the captaincy. The UP-ite’s grandparents had moved to the Caribbean and since then ‘‘the Indian identity’s been there, but I would say ‘‘West Indian’’ if you asked me who I am’’.