Aussie cricket 広大な／多数の／重要な Steve Waugh 逮捕（する）s spirit of India through camera レンズ
Handout picture 解放（する）d by Steve Waugh/Sams Marketing of a man stitching a cricket ball in Uttar Pradesh
Australian 広大な／多数の／重要な Steve Waugh has long held a 深い affection for India, first 小旅行するing the country in 1986. But his experiences were all too often (n)艦隊／(a)素早いing glimpses, before he got the chance to return and photograph everyday cricket in the sport's powerhouse.
Travelling from one ground to the next as a player, and 機能（する）／行事 to 機能（する）／行事 as Australia's captain, Waugh felt he never got to 適切に see and feel the melting マリファナ of life in the teeming, South Asian nation.
But those small peeks into backstreets and alleyways from Kolkata to Jodhpur never left his mind.
Waugh, one of most successful 船長／主将s in cricket history, 解任するs 存在 圧倒するd by "the 絶対の and 完全にする 砲撃 of my senses", and 公約するd to one day go 支援する when his 星／主役にする was 向こうずねing a little いっそう少なく brightly.
"It's something that's always been in the 支援する of my mind, I was always fascinated by what I saw out of the bus window, everyday life, the spirit of the people," Australia's most capped player told AFP in an interview.
"I couldn't comp rehend really how important cricket was to the people and how it was almost a 宗教."
Waugh, 55, put it off for years, until the Australian team were 急落（する），激減（する）d into 危機 in 2018 by the ball-tampering スキャンダル in South Africa.
With Australian cricket at a low point, he began planning a "feel-good" 事業／計画（する） which 最高潮に達するd in an 18-day 旅行 through far-flung parts of India with his camera to 逮捕（する） the essence and simple joys of the game, and raise money for sick children at the same time.
- 100-year-old cricketer -
"It was just a fun 事業／計画（する）. You know, 18 months or so ago people were 説 that cricket had lost its soul after what happened in Cape Town," Waugh said. "I just 手配中の，お尋ね者 to do a feel-good 事業／計画（する） that I was 熱烈な about."
…を伴ってd by a 助言者 in professional photographer Trent Parke, Waugh 始める，決める off in January before the coronavirus pandemic changed the world.
A とじ込み／提出する photo of former Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh, who has long been fascinated by India
His 旅行 took him to the 砂漠 of Rajasthan, the 山のふもとの丘s of the Himalayas and the teeming streets of Mumbai, stopping wherever he saw the game 存在 played.
He met cricketing mo nks, a 100-year-old player, and a three-year-old Instagram batting sensation, while 存在 奮起させるd by blind and 肉体的に challenged players.
Old friends like Sachin Tendulkar got 伴う／関わるd and the end 製品 was a 調書をとる／予約する -- The Spirit of Cricket -- and a 文書の 予定 to 空気／公表する ahead of a India's 限られた／立憲的な-overs and 実験（する） 小旅行する of Australia.
Proceeds will support his work with charities in India and the Steve Waugh 創立／基礎, which raises 基金s for children with rare 病気s, a philanthropic 役割 he has embraced since a 会合 １０年間s ago with the late 修道女 and missionary Mother Teresa.
Waugh, who made his international debut against India and captained Australia through a golden 時代 from 1999 to 2004, took about 17,000 photos and had to whittle them 負かす／撃墜する to 220 for the 調書をとる／予約する.
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"That was harder than taking them because you don't want to leave any out. Every one brings 支援する a memory," he said.
"There were so many 広大な／多数の／重要な scenes -- playing cricket with 修道士s in 前線 of the Himalayas was something I never thought I'd see or do and the 肉体的に challenged cricketers were incredible.
"These guys had 行方不明の 四肢s or polio, things like that, and to see them 飛行機で行くing through the 空気／公表する 上陸 on these sort of bamboo crutches as they bowled was an amazing life experience."
Handout picture of children playing cricket in the 砂漠 in Rajasthan
It was a memorable trip for Waugh, who had always been 利益／興味d in photography.
He said he hoped the end 製品 would help people better understand what cricket means to Indians.
"It's hard to do it 司法（官） unless you've been there, but there's 1.4 billion people who almost all know something about cricket and all feel connected," he said.
"特に for the people living below the poverty line, which is probably 800 million, it gives them hope and it gives them something to be proud of, they feel connected and in some way 責任がある their team doing 井戸／弁護士席."
"It doesn't take much money to play cricket -- a bat and ball and the 残り／休憩（する） is up to your imagination," he 追加するd.
"You don't have to be 肉体的に big or 課すing to play and they have these 役割 models and heroes so cricket, they really are fanatical, 熱烈な about it."
