Money comes only to the ‘blessed’
While it's allright to chase your dreams, keep a backup handy , says Aakash Chopra, the Indian Test-discard.
Sriram Veera
25-Feb-2013
While it's allright to chase your dreams, keep a backup handy, says Aakash Chopra, the Indian Test-discard.
It’s great being a cricketer but conditions apply! It’s great to get paid to play, doing something most of us would do for free but the money is great only if you’re one of the blessed, the 11 out of a billion who actually make it to Team India. Otherwise, millions dream of wearing National colours but don’t even make first-class level. They spend all their adolescence and youth sweating it out under an unforgiving sun and ignoring everything else, including studies, hoping to be among that blessed XI.
Sriram Veera is a former staff writer at ESPNcricinfo