India's U-19 World Cup star Ishan Porel with his parents at Kolkata airport yesterday. The pacer claimed 4-17 against Pakistan. Pic/PTI 

When you have two professional kabaddi players in your family, who have represented the state and country, it's only natural that a young one in the same household will also take to the game. And that's exactly what Bengal resident Ishan Porel did as a kid. He didn't like it though, and made a timely switch to cricket and consequently contributed to India winning the U-19 World Cup in New Zealand recently. Porel's grandfather Subhash Chandra Pandey represented India and won gold in an international kabaddi tournament in 1954. His father Chandranath was also good at the sport and plied his trade at the national level. However, they never insisted that Ishan play kabaddi and left it to him to pick his sport.