![]() Growing up, Yogendra was a budding sportsman but had to drop out as he didn’t get family support. That is why he is able to bowl so fast,” the father of India’s Under-19 pace sensation says. Bohot mehnati hai (He is very hard-working). The idea was to bowl in the harshest weather so he toughens up. In winter, he used to train when its coldest and in summer under the afternoon sun. “Sometimes hundreds of deliveries during a single practice session. ![]() “Kartik used to run in from there,” Yogendra says. Yogendra points to a tree beyond a recently constructed boundary wall of this cricket training plot. The cement practice wicket is just 11 yards long, the other half of the pitch is just loose black soil. The metal poles on which the net hangs are rusty. It’s a practice facility that has a tattered net held down by a line of bricks on either side. Yogendra has now reached closer to his plot where his son has spent countless hours bowling his heart out. ![]()
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