April 5 (Reuters) - As a child growing up in ⁠Punjab's Mohali, Jaskaran Singh would often go up to the rooftop alone, hold his cricket bat and imagine playing in the World Cup for ⁠India.

In 2026, after 17 years in professional cricket, his dream came true, but with a strange twist of fate. He appeared in the ‌Twenty20 World Cup in the country of his birth, but wearing a Canadian jersey.