On a stormy night in India in the winter of 1985, Jatin was born under thundering and lightening that suggested a rebirth for a certain grave cause. Or atleast that is what Jatin would have loved to believe. Instead, his parents told him the truth and Jatin has steadily given up hopes on miracles thereafter.

His days dedicated at education were somehow messed up. Not because he could not get grades, not because his upbringing happened in some difficult circumstances and not because he never got what he desired for in his life. It was only because his PS2 would hang several times while in the middle of a FIFA game between Manchester United and Arsenal. He is still to replace the unit.

One fine day, amongst many such days that he had bunked in the college, there was a revelation to him. His had sat down to list the desires of his life. And after finishing all the material desires possible (including a sea-facing three bedroom mansion somewhere with a bar room that was magically never empty), he listed down something immaterial. To travel.

But material desires were written first and also had more probability of getting fulfilled. So he jumped into a course that studies finance in and out. Somehow the fact that you know finance was big for the people around. Not surprising, as he growing years made him understand, mostly in a drunk state of mind though, that only two questions in life could not be answered – love and money. So he tried to conquer the second one first but got stuck in a subject called Taxation! He still hates the tax system, not just the current one running in India but even the first known system of taxation that was introduced in 3000-2800 B.C. in Egypt as well! But it’s too late for him to protest now.

Then came another fine day, fine days seemed to be aplenty in his life although you would still see him crib around, and life threw a new door opened to him. After having played with the door itself for a little while, Jatin realised that this was the door that he was waiting for a long time! He stepped inside the door, finished his loo covering his nose up and stepped out. And while on his way home, he had gotten a call from a close friend.

That call led him into creating innovative statistics on a sport called cricket. A sport introduced in 1800 A.D., cricket restricted its acceptance to limited number of countries and yet managed to have stories worth his time. And now that the game’s centre was India, Jatin