A Hockey Pro, Faraz Ahmed, playing in a left half position in 1995, was selected for the SAI Day Boarding Scheme. After two years of training he played important matches in the Kolkatta Hockey circuit.

After that it seems his luck ran out. Despite being a brilliant player he was unable to find a place in the Indian Hockey Team the reason being the same old one ‘Dirty Sports Politics”.

Unable to land a decent job he makes keys at a roadside stall in Hazratganj, Lucknow. He is at his wits end not knowing where Rs 1 lac required for his mother’s surgery will come from. Totally disillusioned, he admits he made a wrong choice, Hockey instead of Cricket. It has ruined his life.

Ironically, there is a small news on the same page, “budding Cricketer, Tarak Mistri, a 20 year old cricketer from Bengal, lost his battle against illness and “Poverty”

The same cricket which makes billionaires was unable to save one precious life and it is the same cricket which always overshadows other equally important sports.