How Mukul Choudhary’s father didn’t allow a cricket dream to extinguish, despite loans in crores and being jailed for property disputes | Cricket News
The phone hasn’t stopped buzzing for Dalip Choudhary since the time his son Mukul marked his arrival for Lucknow Super Giants with a match-winning unbeaten 54 off 27 balls against Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens. LSG were struggling at 104/5 when Mukul landed at the crease, in pursuit of Kolkata’s 181/4. He would help rattle off the remaining 78 runs in the next 11 overs. Dalip remembers the day he had decided that if he had two sons he would ensure both became cricketers, such was his love for the game. One year after his marriage, Mukul was born, followed by a daughter and Dalip went on to fulfill every Indian father’s dream, to make his son a cricketer. Dalip sacrificed his dreams of cracking the Rajasthan Administrative Service (RAS) and worked in real estate, before enrolling Mukul into the SBS Cricket Academy at Sikar which is 80 kilometers from Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan. Sikar is from where some of India’s tallest giants in basketball had emerged from owing to their physicality, but cricket needed …
