From Dusty Fields In Salem To Gabba High - The Story Of T Natarajan
Pace bowler T Natarajan had all odds stacked against him growing up. His family, led by his father who toiled for daily wages, and mother who ran a roadside shack, had little money and his house had n
Pace bowler T Natarajan had all odds stacked against him growing up. His family, led by his father who toiled for daily wages, and mother who ran a roadside shack, had little money and his house had no TV on which he could watch cricket and pick his initial lessons. But there was one thing he had managed to pick in the dusty village fields around Salem in Tamil Nadu while playing tennis ball cricket -- the ability to bowl fast.
"I wouldn't even call it humble background. He comes from poverty. In his early years he was playing simple tennis ball cricket in village, middle of nowhere on small and dusty grounds in small villages. Nobody taught him to bowl. He didn't even have a TV to see cricket matches," RS Ramaswamy, secretary of Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA), told.
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Ramaswamy has known Natrajan for close to a decade as he had been the secretary of the Salem district cricket body as well.
Back in 2009, Natarajan came to his village ground where he found some people playing cricket. He offered to bowl. At that time he was playing village tournaments that offered small cash as prize money.
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