The generation that gets better!!!
"When a man is a boy, he looks at what he can get; when he is a man, he looks at what he can give.” There are many things Maidaan cricket has given us over the years. Runs. Wickets. Arguments. Injuries that required considerably more medical attention than the injury itself. Friendships. Rivalries. WhatsApp abuse. And, occasionally, cricket. But perhaps the most rewarding thing has been watching a bunch of boys who started playing with us slowly become men. And that, for me, is one of the things that makes Maidaan special. Because time and sport are cruel. You don't notice it happening. One day they are the kids running around the boundary, asking when they will get to bat. And before you know it, they are bowling the difficult overs, taking responsibility, making decisions — and, most annoyingly, **making some of us look old.** It started with four of them — **Ayush, Ahaan, Eshaan and Pranav** — all thick buddies themselves. One of them took an early retirement because, in h...
