Virender Sehwag in a podcast interview on The Ranveer Show (TRS) shared about his early days of tennis ball cricket. He talked about his residential area, Najafgarh in Delhi and shared that he used to play cricket with gangsters, and some of them were killed in crimes.
“Do you know why Najafgarh was famous? Whenever you open the newspaper for gangsters, you will see headlines related to murder, theft etc. in Najafgarh. There were many villages around our area from where famous gangsters used to come and around 100 people were killed in gang war around the area.
He said that he used to play tennis ball cricket with the gangsters without actually knowing who they were.
“We did not know that they were gangsters. They were of our age, and it was in the evening they were playing with us and in the morning their bodies were discovered, as they were members of several gangs,” Sehwag said in the interview with TRS. He was also involved in many crimes.
The veteran cricketer shared that he was scared then and tried to filter out people while playing. “We stopped entertaining outsiders because we don’t know their background, someone must be playing us and the police might mistake us for gangsters or something,” he said.
Sehwag He had to deliberately isolate himself from such children and choose a different path, the path of cricket, and then after playing for India, he got the badge of “Nawab of Najafgarh”. This helped bring about some variation in the image. of Najafgarh.
Asked if this was the reason for his aggressive batting, Sehwag laughed and said, “If I had known they were gangsters, I would have avoided them, and I don’t always judge a person by how he behaves.” doing.” with me. I tend to take it more at face value and people abuse it too, but that’s how I am.”
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