Village boy Parvinder Awana in the spotlight
Kings XI Punjab and Delhi bowler Parvinder Awana tells the Hindustan Times ' Shalabh Manocha about how he went from the Araula village near Noida to a training camp in Australia and ended up with a career in cricket instead of the police force.
Nikita Bastian
25-Feb-2013
Kings XI Punjab and Delhi bowler Parvinder Awana tells the Hindustan Times' Shalabh Manocha about how he went from the Araula village near Noida to a training camp in Australia and ended up with a career in cricket instead of the police force.
Some things are destined to happen, believes pacer Parvinder Awana. The Delhi boy has become a key man for the Kings XI Punjab, but had his uncle not pushed him into cricket, Awana would have been either catching criminals or farming. “It was my uncle who insisted that I joined the cricket academy at the National Stadium. I never dreamt that I would make it this far,” said the pacer. “I cleared the physical test required to join the police force and was all set to join when I opted for cricket as a career.”
Nikita Bastian is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo