One of the greatest Olympians ever so far, Michael Phelps, got the taste of cricket on Tuesday because he saw the match of the Indian Premier League between Delhi Capitol and Chennai Super Kings.
The players who won an amazing 23 gold medals in the Olympics were in the city for promotional activities and in the evening they went to Kotla for some time.
A senior BCCI official said, "Phelps has never seen cricket and it was a perfect opportunity to taste India's most popular sport. He came as a guest of Delhi Capitol, who, through his sponsorship Invited, "a senior BCCI official said.
The 33-year-old American living in Baltimore, America, is on his first tour of India. After the match began he came and was around for an hour before going.
It was not known that Phelps found the game interesting as a baseball or felt like it happened with the great Pete Sampras of tennis, who had tried to tolerate one day at Lord's during the Ashes Test match.
