Cricket Crazy Entrepreneur From Chennai
“How would you like it, if there was another MS Dhoni somewhere in the south, who runs his own business?” cracks Shan. The very ambitious young Shan started his cricketing career when he was 12 and fell in love with it instantly. He played his first match in Bhavans Vishyashram School when he was 12 and to everyone’s surprise was knocked up as a captain when he was 14.
“The uphill started from then and my luck hasn’t run out yet” says Shan. But a major part of his childhood he cherished with his bat and ball being from a family hailing cricket. His father was a former state cricket champ and he never failed to instill the passion to go up the ladder for Shan
The pride and twinkle never really left his face as he explain his cherished initial victories, when he debuted as a captain and brought laurels to his school team as they marched into a first ever a semi-finals in a state level tournament conducted by TNCA and did I mention his team became the 8Th best team in Chennai?
And he threaded upward when he won the first purple cap – the man of the match award when he was 13 and awarded the Best Cricketer of Bhavans Vishyashram in 2000. The passion burned as fire as the 6-footer never turned back and bagged a hatrick of 4/26 in his under-22 match and another match where he bagged 5 wickets with 63 runs on him, leaving every person in the crowd singing his name in the stadium and the most dearest moment where he batted and bowled as a veteran player, his first T20 match for his very own cricket club where he aced 46 runs (not out) bagging 3 wickets
He sits back and receives few calls from his clients and continues, “I run a translataion and voiceover agency now, called as SS Protela Business Solutions and I have come a long way since. My cricket has adhered me with perseverance and leadership skills, which cannot be learn in MBA. I still hold cricket to my heart and my motto is living life to the fullest, even if things don’t happen your way. I lived dreaming playing cricket for my bread and butter, however misfortunes somehow managed to seep in. I never bid a goodbye to cricket, rather passed on the bat to aspiring cricketers who wish to make it big, by coaching and mentoring young teens in my cricket club Gangulian XI.
Since he has gone a long way in his business, he has temporarily paused his dream project of running a cricket academy, but promises to mentor and mould many of his kind to make it to the crease.