Reena Chadhha entered an LG contest at work and the result was that her six year old son Arjun Chaudhary got to rub shoulders with some of cricket’s icons. He ran onto the field with the English team and right alongside Steve Finn for the match against Australia last week.
“I did it (entered the contest) because I thought it would be fun and not because I thought Arjun would win!” she says. It was a joint effort by the family. Google and dad Anil Chaudhary answered all the trivia questions and Reena did the rest.
“I said that a country (India) which had so many differences gets united through a game and because it was it was such an important game and had so many memories, it would be awesome if Arjun could share the passion.”
And that made Arjun one lucky boy!
- “Arjun is in love with Mitchell Johnson and all he wants to do is bowl like him and eat as many green vegetables that he does! He was just super excited about the fact that he walked on the same ground as Mitchell Johnson.”
- He was very excited to see snippets of him on TV. “(After this experience), cricket has a bigger meaning for him, its more real.”
- Arjun is still learning about the game. Some of that “learning” is done in the evenings inside the house corridor with dad.
- “He goes for Australia big time if Australia is not playing, then its Team India.”
- English fast-bowler Steve Finn sprinkled a bit of stardust on 6 year-old Arjun Chaudhary but the hat-trick he scored that day means Arjun spread some of his magic as well!
Some related trivia
Steve Finn became the seventh bowler to record a Cricket World Cup hat-trick and the first Englishman to do so in a remarkable ending to Australia’s innings at the MCG. Finn snared the wickets of Brad Haddin, Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Johnson. Finn’s feat places him in an elite World Cup category alongside Chetan Sharma (India v New Zealand, 1987), Saqlain Mushtaq (Pakistan v Zimbabwe, ’99), Chaminda Vaas (Sri Lanka v Bangladesh, ’03), Brett Lee (Australia v Kenya, ’03) and Kemar Roach (West Indies v Netherlands, ’11).
__ cricket.com.au
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