Antonym of a modern cricketer
Munaf Patel has taken 11 wickets in 13 matches for the Rajasthan Royals and Varun Gupta, in profiling the injury-prone Indian bowler in the Hindustan Times , writes that he is the antonym of the modern dapper cricketer.
But a town bereft of possibilities - Ikhar in Gujarat - has bred in him a desperate hunger to succeed, as well as a self-defeating vaule system based on living by one's will - as was apparent when he "fled" home to seek mental comfort before a Ranji Trophy game before informing anyone.
.Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo