Prakash Bhagat, once a leading cricketer from the state who played in different national and state-level tournaments, now runs a food stall in southern Assam`s Silchar to manage two square meals for his poverty-stricken family.

The 34-years-old left-arm slow bowler and right-handed batsman now sells `dal puri` at a roadside stall at Itkhola within the Silchar Municipal Board, for the survival of his six-member family.