The Indian Premier League is the most glamourous competition in cricket and being part of it is nothing short of a dream. But as many cric...
The Indian Premier League is the most glamourous competition in cricket and being part of it is nothing short of a dream.
But as many cricketers dazzle in this limelight, not everything is always rosy.
Chetan Sakariya, a medium-pacer from Saurashtra made his IPL debut for Rajasthan Royals on Tuesday after being picked by the franchise in the latest auction for Rs 1.2 crore.
Coming from a humble background his is a huge success story but it hasn’t come easy, especially from an emotional point of view.
Just three weeks before the IPL auction, Sakariya’s younger brother died by suicide. At that time, Sakariya was playing in the Syed Mustaq Ali Trophy for Saurashtra and his family didn’t inform him about his brother’s death for ten days.
“We didn’t inform him about his brother’s death for the first 10 days as we didn’t want his game to be affected. All we told him was that his father wasn’t keeping well,” Sakariya’s mother told aroundthewicket.com.
“Every time Chetan would call to ask about his father’s health, he would ask us to make him speak to his brother. But I’d change the topic. I wouldn’t let him speak to his father too because I knew my husband would tell him the truth.
But one day, I...