The major drawback of cricket in Italy, as captain Wayne Madsen also told The Quint, is the lack of grass pitches. Jaspreet, with the realisation that he needs to play on grass wickets to suit the standards of international cricket, had to take the difficult decision of leaving the country he called home — for the second time in his life.
This time around, he went to England. But playing local cricket was not enough to make ends meet, so he needed what Gen Z would call it, in a very non-denigrating manner, a ‘side hustle.’ With his main hustle being cricket, he also doubled up as an Uber driver.
