Look around any area, and you’ll see a storm of bats striving to meet, pale mail, a hail of balls. If the craggy grounds and parks of North India are crawling with cricket academies, the choice of young parents to find a career in the sport for their children is pretty obvious. Cricket’s rise to the top sport in the country has been inspired by three World Cup victories, beginning with a miracle in June at Lord’s in 1983. Certainly a transformative moment in the Indian game.
No, it hasn’t acquired the halo of 1983, but the start of the cash-rich Indian Premier League in 2008, where hapless players became millionaires overnight, is no watershed moment, which ignited even a million Willowie dreams. In a new India where new aspirations are born every month, an uncapped player like Rahul Tewatia, who makes Rs 3 crore in less than three months for IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals, is a role model of sorts. What other field of activity can provide such quick success?
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