manchester its unbelievable to see the extent indian fans will go to cheer their side while 87yearold charulata patels story is well documented there are many from across the world who are as passionate and ready to go as far as they can to support the men in blueworld cup scheduleaccording to a report the mathur family which includes threeyearold avya to 67yearold grandfather akhilesh travelled just under 14000 miles visited 17 different countries and crossed two continents from singapore to england just to cheer india in their semifinal clash against new zealand at old trafford on tuesday they left singapore in their sevenseater people carrier on may 20 and after undertaking a 48day journey reached london on thursday night last saturday they watched india beat sri lanka at leedsexplaining why the family opted to travel by road instead of air anupam mathur said back in march we knew the world cup was coming and we thought we must be there to support india the easiest way to do it would be to fly but then we thought no lets do something special for the country lets include everyonelaxman gets nostalgicwhile here on commentary duty for the world cup indias batting great vvs laxman took a trip down memory lane when he visited a couple of local cricket clubs hanging heaton and pudseycongs for which he played in the bradford league almost 2324 years back at that time the wristy hyderabadi was yet to play for india though he was already marked out as one to watch out for in the futurevisited hangingheatoncc and pudseycongs in the bradford league where i played in 1995 96 it was a life changing experience where my approach to life and cricket changed for good tweeted laxman as he elaborated on the experience while watching the first world cup semifinal between india and new zealand at old trafford on tuesday yes it changed my life for the first time in my life i learnt how to live by myself wash my own clothes and basically do everything myself