Selection Day is a 2016 sports fiction novel written by Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga. It was shortlisted along with four other writers for the 2017 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. It tells the story of Mohan Kumar, a chutney seller who trains his two sons: Manju Kumar and Radha Krishna for Mumbai's under-19 cricket team. Here Manju meets his rival, Javed. It was adapted into a Netflix series of the same name.
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Selection Day was adapted into a 2018 television series.
Selection Day2018 · television series · 23 min · IMDb ↗IMDb7.3Two teen cricket prodigies struggle against their overbearing father and a system stacked against them to realize their own ambitions and identities.
