Before he took up cricket seriously, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, 24, was an accomplished volleyball player. His life-changing moment came when he was in Lucknow to attend state-level trials. Almost inexplicably, Kartikeya chose at the very last minute to give up volleyball and pursue cricket. His father, Shyam Nath Singh, a constable with the Uttar Pradesh Police, was flabbergasted. “You have not achieved anything in cricket so far,” Singh told his son. “Volleyball will make your life. Why are you giving it all up?” But the boy was unmoved. Volleyball’s loss, however, turned out to be cricket’s gain.
A few days later, Kartikeya was at the cricket academy at his hometown Sitapur, with dreams of becoming India’s next batting superstar. But the coach, Sarvesh Srivastava, had one look at him and handed him the ball. “Your height is very good, which is ideal for a bowler. That is what you should become,” he told Kartikeya.
Although he was disappointed, Kartikeya found something positive in the coach’s decision. “It was cheaper to get a ball than to buy a full-fledged batting kit. I had to be judicious when it came to money,” Kartikeya told THE WEEK.
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