Cricket World Cup: Rachin Ravindra, marked for greatness at 15, comes of age
New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra celebrates his century during the ICC Cricket World Cup match against England. (PTI Photo)
Ravi, a software system architect, was a first-division cricketer in Bangalore before he emigrated to Wellington at the turn of the century. But he could not shake off his love for the game, and began organising cricket for schoolchildren and started the Hutts Hawks Club, which organised cricket tours to different cricketing outposts of the world. He named his son Rachin, merging the names of his favourite cricketers, Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, a quirk of first name that has been well-storied. (READ MORE)
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