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I lost interest in cricket after school, but I was always open to enjoying it -- not as a serious sport to follow, but as a form of entertainment, like going to the beach or watching a movie. Unlike the effort I once made as a schoolboy -- begging and borrowing just to get a ticket for one day of a five-day Test at Eden Gardens, my subsequent visits were always as guests of someone or the other. In India, HSBC, with whom I had a big relationship -- thanks to the IBM money they were holding in escrow -- had given me tickets for an IPL match at Eden Gardens. But in this the biggest jackpot was Lords. We had made the transition from PwC to IBM and we were engaged in a data warehousing project for British Petroleum. This was in 2003-2004 and if I remember correctly, the UK partner was a gentleman called Siva Ramesh, a person of Sri Lankan origin who claimed to have played a few tests for the Sri Lanka cricket team! He was the overall project partner and I was the partner heading the delive...

 

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