Ram

The reason I can hardly enjoy T20 cricket. Look at where the ball has pitched and moving, look where is front foot is and where at what angle the bat comes to meet the ball. This is more Gilli Danda than cricket.

Long before the IPL lights & national contracts, there was a small room in Ranchi where a boy from Patna learned the difficult art of hiding hunger. Ishan Kishan had left Patna because Bihar's registration dispute with BCCI had blocked his path to professional cricket. In that one room flat in Doranda, Kishan was the youngest at age of 12. He washed dishes. When his roommates left for night tournaments, he stayed alone. Too proud to worry his parents, he went to sleep hungry rather than admit what his evenings looked like. Chips, Kurkure, Soft drinks. Eventually he learned to boil Maggi. His pre-practice breakfast was sattu mixed with water. When his mother called & asked if he had eaten, he said yes. The boy built a stubbornness life would later test again & again. Indian cricket often understands failure only in scorecards. It rarely understands exhaustion. Pressure of being 4th or 5th in a wicketkeeper pecking order that included Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson & KL Rahul. He asked for a break during South Africa tour, drained in ways that do not show up in fitness reports. By 2024, Kishan had disappeared from the centre of things. BCCI removed his contract. Selectors spoke about availability & attitude in careful public language. But the real story felt quieter. Too much travel. Too much waiting. Too many benches for a player forever asked to prove himself one more time. Then came the Bhagavad Gita. Not as performance theatre. Not as a social media quote. Just a tired young man searching for something steady enough to hold his mind together. He found comfort in the old sentence about work & detachment. Do your duty. Leave the result alone. Sometimes cricket careers change not in nets, but in lonely evenings when nobody is watching. And slowly, the game returned to him. A SMAT title with Jharkhand. A captain’s hundred in the final. Then in T20 World Cup 2026, When Abhishek Sharma was struggling, Ishan became the top order enforcer. The day before India's T20 World Cup final in Ahmedabad, Kishan's cousin sister was tragically killed in a car accident. Kishan resolved to play the final in her memory, He made 25 ball 54 runs in India's consecutive T20 World Cup victory. Then in IPL 2026, where he became the quiet bridge inside SRH’s madness. Travis Head & Abhishek Sharma attacked like summer storms. Klaasen finished games like a machine. In between stood Kishan, adjusting himself to whatever the innings demanded. Aggression one day, restraint the next. Even became the leader & turned the tide after losing 3 out of their first 4 games. Now he is back in India colours again, this time not as a hopeful reserve but as first choice player. Funny thing about life. The boy who once survived by pretending everything was fine eventually became strong enough to actually mean it.

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