Soon after Ruturaj Gaikwad blitzed his way to 99, another small town boy - Mukesh Choudhary - was in the limelight for Chennai Super Kings versus Sunrisers Hyderabad on Sunday night. When he dismissed Abhishek Sharma and Rahul Tripathi off successive deliveries, a couple that was sitting in the gallery along with Gaikwad’s parents was anxious.
That Mukesh was on the verge of earning a hat-trick in the Indian Premier League didn’t really matter to them. Gopal and Prembai Choudhary - who had travelled from Darwha, a small town almost an hour’s drive from Yavatmal, a district headquarter in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region - were thrilled to be watching their son shining bright in front of a capacity crowd.
