new delhi a new book on the inspirational story of vishesh bhriguvanshi indias youngest basketball team captain will hit the stands on august 29 the national sports day announced publishing house bluerosethe book titled vishesh code to win narrates the mindset of a basketball player in a cricketdominated nation and brings to light his strenuous journey of becoming the captain against all odds it is written by sportswomanturnedauthor nirupama yadavthe29 yearold bhriguvanshi hails from uttar pradeshs varanasi and has been playing for india since 2007 he was first awarded the captainship of the indian team in 2010during his career of over 15 years now he has represented india at various championships asian games 2 asian championships 5 beach asian games 3 indoor asian games 2 south asian games 2 and south asian championships 7in 2017 bhriguvanshi became the first indian to be signed by australias national basketball league nbl he was set to train with the adelaide 36ers however fate had different plans as the forward sustained a knee injurycricket is more popular and thats where the youngsters want to go therefore through the biography and the inspirational journey of vishesh bhriguvanshi i want to reach out to more youths in india and make them aware about basketballthere are many more games other than cricket which are played in our country i intend to write more such books on other games to spread the awareness among indian youth said the authoraccording to the publishers the objective of the book is also to encourage the sports industry to focus more on developing games in india just like cricket so that the players get their due recognitionthe 130page biography is written in a story format along with the learnings at times the readers will feel that vishesh is directly talking to them as a mentor it steers readers on developing a mindset along with the skill set in basketball the book also includes the selection procedure in indian basketball team and a note from the man vishesh bhriguvanshi himself they added