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Think that you had just topped the all-India NEET examination, if and when it did not leak, and then were denied admission to a medical college without as much as an explanation.

Might you not have asked why have an all-India competition at all if admissions to medical colleges rest on considerations other than your performance in the almighty common examination for which you may have prepared in dingy rooms away from home several times over?

Illustration: Pariplab Chakraborty.

Now switch to the all-India national competition in the game of cricket (a religion that more Indians follow than those who follow medicine) – the Ranji Trophy contest.

After all the sweat and multiple heartbreaks of years gone by, team Jammu & Kashmir bested every other state-level team to come out winners, some six decades after Kashmir first entered the tournament – the NEET of cricket.

Many reputed Test players in many reputed Elevens fell to the astounding grit, prowess, and performance of the erstwhile........

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