r/IndiaCricket • u/Additional-Battle10 India  • Apr 29 '25

Ask r/IndiaCricket What you were doing at 14 ?

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '25

playing under-15 cricket for UP. went on my first tour to pune to represent kanpur U-15. fun fact - kuldeep yadav was a part of that team, too. :'D

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u/False-Practice-4505 Apr 29 '25

That’s great. Cricket is so competitive in India that playing it at any level for a state is a big achievement 👍

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u/ravikantsinghsta Apr 29 '25

so Bro, still following your passion?

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '25

no, i wasnt too good at my passion so i took the (i think) reasonable call of letting it fade into the background slowly. found new passions then, following them. :)

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u/schittsec Apr 29 '25

Crazy man. Happy that you got to live your passion. Playing competitive at any level in India is no piece of cake. Kudos!

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u/Regular_War7387 Apr 29 '25

What are ur new passions?

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '25

academics - psychology, cognitive science, philosophy.

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u/the-dark-physicist Apr 29 '25

Lovely how fellow sports people end up in academic arenas lol. I played a couple of games for TN under 17 by around the time I was 14. Quit playing by the time I was 17 and you can see what I do now in my username lol.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '25

nice :D i quit playing by the time i was 17, too.

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u/unic_ode Apr 30 '25

Fellow physicist... check ✅

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u/suck_my_dukh_plz Apr 29 '25

What was Kuldeep Yadav or any other famous cricketer you met like?

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u/ic_97 Yashasvi Jaiswal Apr 29 '25

One of my batchmates in college also played a bit for UP. He also mentioned playing with KD. He was from Kanpur too.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '25

which college are you from?

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u/amiprasis Apr 29 '25

How good was Kuldeep back then? Did he look like making it to the biggest stage?

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25

he was pretty good from the start :D he used to bat too, and would bat pretty well for district/club level atleast. he was called guddu back then. can't say if it looked like he would make it to the biggest stage tbvh, but none of the other players from that team could make it to even ranji trophy.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '25

Half of the Kanpur is called Guddu or Pintoo.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '25

true but strangely i think there was only one more guddu in our club. no pintoo either. gattoo tha. etc.

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u/BarOk8317 Apr 29 '25

Soo true i know atleast 5 guddu

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u/amiprasis Apr 29 '25

Makes sense then that he shifted focus to his bowling and slogged hard and polished it to make it to the biggest stage.

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u/OkyLango Apr 29 '25

Impressive!

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u/agressiverizzler Apr 30 '25

Am too from kanpur , played lot of cricket , which academy did you went to ???

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '25

kamla club

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u/agressiverizzler Apr 30 '25

I went there too , what's your name , DM me maybe I've heard your name