I think I read the boundaries were small as f**k. Like under 30m
I have a feeling this was a set up to get a kid a scholarship. Tiny field, kids who have never played with a proper ball and are really young. So dodgy.
Please elaborate on this.
I do not think that there is anything sinister about a school having academic exams during the sports season.
Its unavoidable.
Also with 1.25 billion people, rare statistical outcomes will continue to come out of India. So many people, so many matches played.
I've always been fascinated how cricketers in NZ say, can juggle university end of year exams when the domestic cricket season is under way. Sure they can arrange to have exams taken early on days that suit. But the pre-season training and trials and then matches right before exams - that is quite tough for those studying the likes of law and medicine where there are one year long papers.
Well established players would get cut slack by their provinces, but someone fighting for a spot in the XI - that is a different story. The irony is, for many, for the cricket to succeed to national honors so they can drop out of uni. I suspect that they study merely to pass and put sports first and then seek employment based on sporting achievement should the sports career falter later; but that is once they're already at an adult rep level. Bit tough to put that reasoning on school children. I know Steve Smith dropped out of high school - his final year I think - to pursue cricket full time. That decision was debated at the time by people advising Steven.
Mitchell Santner for example, if you were him right now, would you be enrolling in uni to finish an engineering degree?
