From Driving Uber In England To Italy Cricket Team: The Journey Of Phagwara's Jaspreet Singh

From Driving Uber In England To Italy Cricket Team: The Journey Of Phagwara's Jaspreet Singh

Jaspreet enrolled into the local Bergamo Cricket Club, a meagre facility at best, but also completed a two-year electrician course to assist his father in his works. However, he soon found a way to develop his cricketing skills with some help from the Indian expats.

Jaspreet Singh story: From Phagwara to Uber driver in England to Italian cricket team

Chennai (PTI): “Chalo! Hum Hindi mein baat karenge (let's talk in Hindi).” One won't get to hear that line often ahead of an interview with an Italian cricketer. But Jaspreet Singh has neither forgotten the language or connection with his home town Phagwara, Punjab, despite moving to Bergamo 22 years ago as a 10-year-old with his parents. The early days in Italy were not precisely smooth as his father Tirath Singh and mother Jasvir Kaur had to s…