When Shivam Dube walked into the inaugural T20 Mumbai League in 2018, he was another hard-hitting domestic cricketer trying to get noticed. One over, in which he smashed five sixes, changed everything. The innings catapulted him into the IPL, eventually earned him an India cap and became one of the earliest examples of how a regional T20 league could change a career almost overnight.
Today, nearly every state association in India wants its own Shivam Dube story.
