There is a particular kind of stillness that falls over a maidan just before Vikas Sartape walks out to bat — the sense that something extraordinary is about to happen. Since 1996, from a twenty-ball century at Rajewadi to an unbeaten 115 studded with eighteen sixes at Walchandnagar, the Mhaswad-born hitter has turned grassroots tennis-ball cricket into his own private theatre.
