Bored Question

While discussing about the West Indians in an East Indian team, Krish asked me this...

"Nice research, RajaB! I wonder if they play cricket in Lakshadweep. Maybe our own Brian Lara or Curtly Ambrose."

This triggered another interesting question...

Even if they do play cricket in Lakshadweep and the Andaman islands, where do they go from there ??

I mean if a kid from TN or AP or Goa or Mumbai or Delhi or even a Jharkhand plays well (or he is percieved to be playing well by those powerful and mighty...) then he moves on to represent his state / region in age group cricket and then moves on to the Ranji level.

Now, imagine I am a talented kid (just imagine !!) from either Lakshadweep or Andamans. Where will I go ??

Even a Services has its own Ranji team (I am leaving Railways as it is fairly large, railway zones and so on), so do we need a combined Union Territories / smaller states team playing Ranji ??

Do we have enough talent in the Union Territories / smaller states to warrant a team ??

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