![Off the bat](https://cdn.magzter.com/1440743039/1639576875/articles/61c2f101ccb10/Off-the-bat.jpg)
Around 80km to the north east of Delhi, Meerut is at the forefront of production of not just bats, but sports goods in general. The newly constructed DelhiMeerut Expressway has brought down travel time to just over an hour and half and while we did our best to start early in a bid to avoid traffic, there were still plenty of vehicles crowding the road. That, however, brought the i20 N Line’s strengths to the fore as we managed to easily snake our way through thanks to those 120 horses under the hood, the slick shifting 7-speed DCT and a brilliant handling package. Following conversations with shop owners in Meerut’s Suraj Kund market, which is the place to go if you’re looking to shop for sports goods and more so if you’ve cricket equipment in your shopping list, we were directed to an area referred to as Sports Complex. Aside from being chock-a-block with factories manufacturing everything from tennis balls, to footballs to plenty of other sports equipment, this place is also home to some of the biggest names in the world of cricket equipment including BDM.
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