After his miserable failure in Bihar’s political arena, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav’s son and budding cricketer Tejaswi Yadav got a much-needed chance to begin his new innings in the stadium when he was secured by a team for the first Jharkhand Premier League (JPL) tournament in an auction.
Tejaswi, 20, who had extensively campaigned for the RJD as its star campaigner during Bihar’s Assembly polls last year, was claimed by the Jamshedpur Janbaaz, one of the five teams participating in Jharkhand’s first IPL-style tournament, for `60,000. Following his successful entry into the JPL at the auction in Ranchi on Sunday, RJD sources said it was a “huge relief for the young scion getting disillusioned with politics” following the RJD’s crashing defeat.
But securing a place in the JPL, to be played in floodlit matches in Ranchi between March 13 and 19, was neither easy nor satisfying for the RJD chief’s flamboyant second son, who has earlier played for the Delhi Daredevils team in the IPL and in the Ranji Trophy for Jharkhand without much success in both. He was netted by a team only after being put on the block thrice. Second, his price remained too low when seen in light of his growing image as a cricketer-politician. Of the 100 cricketers, most of them little known outside their local circles.