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He attends Richmond Christian College and has already been part of under-12 state school cricket trials in Sydney this month.<\/p>\n
He also plays academy and local representative cricket where he opens the batting and bowls leg spin.<\/p>\n
Ravi, 36, has been a handy all-rounder for Bears, having played top grade in the LJ Hooker League most years since 2017.<\/p>\n
The club now plays in second grade, with Virat getting to play in a team where about half the players have been in the top grade at some point.<\/p>\n
“We both love it; I’ve even been working on getting his younger sister into the game, too” Ravi said.<\/p>\n
“I haven’t quite got there yet, but she enjoys bowling to him at home.”<\/p>\n
Ravi comes from Punjab in the north of India and has been in Australia for more than 15 years.<\/p>\n
He settled at Ballina, and since 2012, he and his wife have run Farm Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Asian Grocery.<\/p>\n
He has been described as a loveable character and one of the cricket clubs most dedicated players who worked his way up from the lower grades and into its top side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A FATHER and son combination are turning heads in Far North Coast cricket this season with 10-year-old Virat Singh joining the Ballina Bears senior second grade team. The talented youngster started as a fill-in and is now playing alongside his father Ravi. They are believed to be the youngest in the competitions history and one […]<\/p>\n