Injury forces you to introspect. In 2017, PR Sreejesh had the world at his feet. Then came the injury. "The next day someone else took my place," PR Sreejesh tells us. "Even in the newspapers, you started to put someone else's picture. Everyone started to forget me. That day I realized, 'Okay, hockey is not your life. Hockey is part of your life'."
Sreejesh is a thinking man's sportsperson. Maybe it is to do with his unique position on the field. A persona forever in disguise - the hockey goalkeeper's elaborate armour and grilled helmet giving him that concealment - and watching the action before him, it probably gave him the most unique spot to think, about the game at hand, and the bigger game of life.
