Why is Arshdeep Singh judged so harshly?
Just 16 months into his international career, Arshdeep Singh has weathered numerous storms. He has been brutally criticized for his tendency to bleed runs—12 times in 40 games has he leaked 10 or more an over in a game; his overstepping woes were packaged as traffic rule memes; a dropped catch off Pakistan batsman Asif Ali in a tense encounter in the 2022 Asia Cup spun vicious and sustained trolling. He did not sleep the night he spilled the catch that turned out to be game-defining, but every time he has been ridiculed or mocked, he has demonstrated an incredible gift to fight back, to survive and prosper.
In his span he had experienced enough of the fickle love of supporters that he once penned a poignantly philosophical poem in Punjabi, roughly translated as: “For some, I’m lucky, ...