see legends like jacques kallis wasim akram and simon katich alongside it was an amazing feeling i am a very curious guy i love to learn i still remember i went to wasim akram during a net session a day before a match against kxip and asked paaji aap kaise dono tarah swing kar lete hain itne short runup se how do you manage to swing the ball both ways with a short runup he said bring me a ball colin munro was on strike he took a fiveyard runup and started making the ball dance in swing outswing he bowled everything i was amazed the way he controls and handles the ball is unbelievable thats why we all call him legend biju recalled biju the engineer before he became a cricket coach bijus parents wanted him to become an engineer he was in the science stream and went on to hold a diploma in engineering but all he wanted to do was become a cricket coach one day he sat with his parents and managed to convince them about his first love cricket he enrolled himself in the cricket coaching diploma programme from the national institute of sports in 1990 and got his first posting at jamnagar i have a diploma in mechanical engineering my life is like a crisscross every child who grows up in kerala the family wants them to be either a doctor engineer and or an ias officer my family wanted me to be an engineer they pushed me into engineering they made me take the first group the first group means mathematics science and all i struggled a lot in mathematics this sin cos and trigonometry all went over my head during the academics after completing my diploma in engineering i did my diploma in cricket coaching from national institute of sports in 1990 i have been really passionate about cricket since childhood and in 1992 i joined sports authority of india as a cricket coach he said my first posting was jamnagar i was lucky enough to come across people in jamnagar which is a hub of cricketing heroes its the birthplace of ranjitsinhji and duleepsinhji when i was in jamnagar salim durrani sir was there i spent a lot of time with him i considered myself lucky talking to a legend like him he gave me a different perspective of the game he said when i did level 3 coaching with bcci we were given a probability why is this guy getting out lbw find out what is the technical fault and what is the biomechanical reason beyond that everything comes down to biomechanics so having a little background in mechanical helped me understand how forces work on equilibrium all the things helped me a lot the coach said working with indian womens cricket team biju has served as a fielding coach of the indian womens cricket team between 2017 and 2019 he was part of the management when india