India, April 2 -- Most of the current generation of Indian cricketers grew up watching one of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid or Sourav Ganguly - India's all-time famous batting trinity - as their role model. However, Nitish Rana's household was such that it had takers for all three, which, in turn, led to the occasional fight. Yes, Rana, the Rajasthan Royals batter, revealed that he would often lock himself in a room and cry his eyes out if his favourite batter lost the competition to the other two. Brought up in a cricket-frenzy family, Rana, his father, and his brother would support the Indian team with different favourite players. Rana, being a left-handed batter himself, was in awe of Ganguly, but the other two. not so much.

"Dad was...