The 25-year-old left-handed batter Agni Dev Chopra is slowly popping out of the shadows of his filmmaker father Vidhu Vinod Chopra, having slammed 5 centuries in 4 matches in the continuing Ranji Trophy, which is his debut first-class season. Having made a transfer from Mumbai to Mizoram, after taking part in age-group cricket in tinsel-town, Chopra has scripted historical past by changing into the primary cricketer in Ranji Trophy historical past to attain a century in every of his first 4 matches of his profession in the event.
Chopra, who not like a number of children from Bollywood households, was by no means in the flicks and was at all times into cricket and mentioned that he by no means requested his father for any favour in his profession even when it got here to getting into any of the IPL groups, who’ve a reference to the movie trade. Chopra, who performed 7 matches for Mizoram in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, smashed 234 runs at a strike fee of 150.96 however it wasn’t sufficient for any of the IPL groups to get in him
“May be I am not good enough so I wasn’t picked,” Chopra advised PTI on not getting an IPL contract. The left-hander added that even when his father might name up anybody and get him into any of the groups, making the ultimate XI will nonetheless be the workforce administration’s name however he would by no means try this and mentioned that he need to be picked based mostly on his high quality.
“For me, I need to be picked for something based mostly on my pedigree, it should not be due to the rest. I do not suppose my dad would ever decide up the cellphone and inform anybody simply because I advised him to. I need to be good sufficient in order that they’re calling my dad, quite than my dad calling them.
“If something like that (his father pulling ranks) happened, may be I will be picked in squad, but surely, would not get to play in the eleven. I don’t want to be in a team where I am picked because of a phone call and then I am not going to play,” he additional added.
With 767 runs to this point in eight innings, Chopra is presently the very best run-getter in the Ranji Trophy and despite the fact that the standard of bowling in the Plate Group is not on top of things, the 25-year-old eyes taking Mizoram to the ultimate of the Plate Group to get an automated qualification for the Elite Group subsequent yr.
