125-ft-long sand cricket bat to wish Indian team

Sand artist Sudarsan Patnaik, along with his students, has depicted the 2011 World Cup tournament at Puri beach. They laboriously worked for hours and completed a grand replica of cricket stadium with a lively pitch in the centre, the World Cup trophy and a gigantic cricket bat measuring 125 feet in length. Patnaik termed this creative and attractive sculpture as a medium to hail all the participants of the grand sporting extravaganza and also to wish the Indian team good luck.