Why Harshit Rana Stopped Taking Calls From Relatives: Harshit Rana is a star now. His name is known around the world. He has won the Champions Trophy 2025 with India and the IPL 2024 title for the Kolkata Knight Riders. Being at the top of his career, Harshit recently revealed he doesn’t entertain the calls from many relatives, and he has a valid reason for that.
To be backed up when you are in your ground zero, not many people are gonna do that. Many would rather be discouraging you. To treat all that as just a noise and to push yourself forward, you need a strong mind and a strong support system. Harshit had both. His father stood like a pillar behind him.
But it wasn’t easy for his father, Pradeep Rana, who is a former hammer thrower and weightlifter for the CRPF. Many relatives and other people questioned him for letting his son play cricket. According to them, it was an unusual career choice. But Pradeep Rana and the sportsman in him were not ready to give up. And the result is in front of you in the form of a 1.82 m tall fast-bowling all-rounder.
Why Harshit Rana Stopped Taking Calls From Relatives
Rana recently opened up about his past and how people had looked down on him. But he also said that the same people showed up when he got all the fame in the world. But the 23-year-old doesn’t pick up their calls anymore.
“People change a lot once you get the fame and name. Those who doubted you before, all of them become like brothers and relatives then. Many would tell my father why he is behind me he will not do anything and there is nothing in cricket. Today the same people call him and tell him that he worked a lot on me,” he said. (34:05)
“People call me too but I don’t pick their calls now. It is nothing about attitude. But they told me a lot at that time and now I don’t like talking to them,” he added.
Harshit bagged 15 wickets in IPL 2025 from 13 matches for KKR with an economy of 10.18.
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