
Born: January 1976, Hillingdon. Teams: Tottenham, Middlesex. Moment in time: Watching Sachin Tendulkar, aged 17, score his first Test ton against England at Old Trafford in 1990. Did you know or care? Pranav played tchouckball at school and impressively took part in national championships. Less impressive was that only 12 other UK schools played the sport. It took Pranav about eight years and countless single-figured scores to realise he would never play cricket for Middlesex. Chastised, he spent every morning before school nose-deep in the back pages during paper rounds. His 11 years at BBC Sport saw him thrashed by a No. 1 squash player, dunked in an ice bath at Twickenham and nick a 90mph delivery at The Oval. A frontline live blogger for ...
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