Sometimes, the simplest of things might make us feel the happiest, and when you see simplicity in majority aspects of life, certain skills are bound to happen quite naturally. So natural that you get through placement tests in college and qualify to be slotted in three Multi National Companies and still sustain the nonchalance to clear the Air Force Common Admission Test. Phewf! *Imagine being Shikha Pandey, the student*
The cricketing version of Shikha Pandey, though, is a bit contrasting. There is no room for simple-sample stuff when she loads her run-up partnering alongside one of the legends of the game, Jhulan Goswami. Born in Karimnagar of Andhra Pradesh, (now Telangana) the Indian all-rounder always had the smarts to settle into a zone of serenity irrespective of the gravity of a problem. Be it notching up good grades at school or motoring a run-chase in a historic Test match against England on her debut. If Shikha were to be described in a single word, the term 'exception' could only do as much justice to the free-flowing attitude she holds for most things in life.
