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Behind Shashank Singh’s IPL success: A student who stepped up to keep his late coach’s academy running, a bit of Mumbai’s Khadoos and street-smart batting
Shashank Singh celebrates after Punjab’s win over Kolkata, Shashank alongside his former coach Vidya Paradkar. (Sportzpics/Special Arrangement)
It was late last year that Shashank Singh received the soul-crushing news from Mumbai. Vidya Paradkar, a prominent maidan coach who mentored the likes of Zaheer Khan and Ajinkya Rahane, and took Shashank under his wings, was no more. At the other end of the line was Paradkar’s widow, Pramila.
“I told him that I’ll be taking over the academy because sir had wished that it keeps running,” she tells The Indian Express. The response from the former pupil was a short one. “I’m coming to Mumbai. We’ll talk about it.” (Read more from Rahul Pandey)