Saurabh Tiwary was one of the hardest-hitters of his time, but he reckons he could not have competed with today’s batters.
Saurabh has won a bigger trophy, though. Saurabh — whose M.S. He wants to achieve as an administrator what he could not as a player. “I want Jharkhand to win those tournaments. Among his teammates were Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, Abhinav Mukund and Manish Pandey.
Dhoni-like long mane also caught the eye as much as big sixes — played three ODIs for India and made a mark at the IPL in its early days, also has an excellent record in First Class cricket, in which he scored more than 8,000 runs (22 hundreds and 34 fifties) at an average of more than 47. He was part of the Indian team that won the under-19 World Cup in 2008 in Malaysia.
He says cricket has become almost a game of power-hitting. “Not just T20s, but One-Dayers as well,” he said. “When you have played cricket for 24 years, you know what a cricketer needs, and I have been trying to help the players from Jharkhand,” he said. “I have won the Vijay Hazare Trophy, but never the Ranji Trophy or the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy,” he said. “It was a dream come true, of course, but I was run out in the final (against South Africa),” he said.