Shahbaz Ahmed: Maths-loving working class cricketer makes Elite League
Bengal's U-23 team had conceded first innings lead to Railways, and also lost to Baroda after taking a first innings lead in first two games of the CK Nayudu Trophy. Before the next game, young coach Sourasish Lahiri ran into erstwhile Cricket Association of Bengal president Sourav Ganguly at the CAB headquarters. "Patsy (Lahiri's nickname in Bengal circle), weren't you talking about a Haryana lad from Tapan Memorial Club?" Ganguly apparently enquired from the coach and he was told that his name is Shahbaz Ahmed.


