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Engineer by day, cricketer by night: The unlikely journey of Anshuman Hooda
AI EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Anshuman Hooda, a DTU graduate and corporate employee, had never played age‑group cricket. After failing two Under‑23 trials, he considered quitting. The Delhi Premier League gave him a chance, and he emerged as a 140‑km/h fast bowler, with coach Harish Dagar predicting speeds up to 150 km/h.
WHY IT MATTERS
The story shows how a professional league can transform an overlooked athlete into a potential national fast bowler, highlighting opportunities for late‑comers in cricket.
Anshuman Hooda was a national-level roller skater, a graduate of Delhi Technological University (DTU), an employee at a multinational company and someone who had never played age-group cricket. After two failed Under-23 trials, he contemplated quitting the game. Then came the Delhi Premier League (DPL), and a 140 kmph fast bowler emerged who, according to his coach Harish Dagar, can touch 150 kmph. Suddenly, the road from corporate life to professional cricket did not look so improbable.
This story was originally reported by Times of India — Sports. As an automated real-time news aggregator, NewsToolBar provides multi-perspective indexing and AI summarization while directing full readership directly to primary publisher sources.
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