Raj Limbani: A swing bowler from Rann of Kutch shining in U19 World Cup
Growing up, Raj Limbani had two options, either focus on studies like his other siblings or help his father in farming. But unlike his brother and sisters, Raj moved to Baroda, 550km away from Dayapar, a village in Rann of Kutch, to chase his dream of playing cricket.“From our village, Pakistan border is only 27 km away. So generally, the kids from our village go to Ahmedabad, Surat or Baroda for studies. But in Raj’s case, it was different. In 2017, he moved to Baroda just to play cricket,” father Basant Patel tells the Indian Express.
“I am a farmer, so I told him to go and chase his dream. But if it won’t happen, our arandi’s farm (castor) is waiting for you. But right from a very young age, he had this passion towards the game, that sometimes even we failed to understand. But seeing...