In India, cricket is not merely a sport, and no, we're not talking about it being a religion. It's a dream - one that millions of children embrace the very moment they become aware enough. But Mumbai and Punjab Kings (PBKS) allrounder Suryansh Shedge's story has been a little different.

Like most other children in the country, Shedge grew up watching cricket on television. However, back then, he had no ambition of becoming a cricketer. His father held a managerial position at a private firm, and his mother was a banker.

It was his mother who first recognised the cricketer in her son; she took him to a cricket academy for the very first time when he was around nine. She had so much conviction in her son that she quit her well-paying job to support him.

"My mother used to take me to practice sessions and pack my lunchbox," Shedge tells Sky exchange » . "The very day I first stepped onto the field, I resolved to become a cricketer. Had that not been the case, I wouldn't have even bothered going to the ground. The moment I picked up the bat, I made up my mind: I was going to be a cricketer."