KOLKATA: Abhimanyu Easwaran is back where it all began for him. The opener will walk into the history books becoming the first cricketer to play a first-class game at a stadium named after him, when on Tuesday he walks out with his Bengal teammates to face Uttarakhand in a Ranji Trophy Elite Group ‘A’ encounter.
Both the Abhimanyu Stadium in Dehradun and the player himself carry the dreams of a passionate cricket lover Ranganathan Parameswaran Easwaran, who had set up ‘Abhimanyu Cricket Academy’ in 1988. Born in 1995, his son, named Abhimanyu grew up playing the game at the academy ground.
