Vizag, Sept. 2 -- If fate would have taken its course, Bhavani Rajput would have completed his engineering and worked a corporate job, rather than winning games for UP Yoddhas in the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL).

Against the Patna Pirates on September 1, the raider came out all guns blazing to secure five instrumental points that propelled his side to an integral win. In a brief tete-a-tete, the 30-year-old jogged down the memory lane to recollect his earlier days, when playing kabaddi professionally seemed a distant dream.

"I was actually pursuing engineering in Indore. I began my kabaddi journey from my college days onwards. Obviously, if I continued with my engineering, I would have been working some job somewhere. But, I was able to ded...