MUMBAI: Hurt after being dropped repeatedly since his debut five years ago, Mumbai opener
Jay Bista has applied for a No-Objection Certificate (
NOC
) to play for Uttarakhand in the forthcoming season.
Bista has scored 1486 runs in 24 first-class matches@33.02, with four hundreds and an equal number of fifties. “I’m doing it in search of better opportunities. I didn’t feel my spot was secure in the Mumbai team. For the last three-four years, I was being dropped for someone else irrespective of how many runs Ihad scored,” rued Bista .
Explaining how being axed continuously left him hurt, the 24-year-old said: “Once I slammed a hundred and was dropped in the next game. In the Mushtaq Ali last season, I was dropped suddenly despite playing well, for someone who hadn’t played for Mumbai before. Similarly, in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, I was dropped after the first match and told that
Yashasvi Jaiswal would play instead of me. When I was young, I was told that I had time. However, I couldn’t understand how an U-19 player replaced me.”
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