Goa, April 14 -- Aman Verma

Ask any young cricketer at the Campal grounds on a week day evening what they are working towards, and the answer may very well be the IPL. There is a moment, in the career of almost every serious cricketer in the country today, when the ambition quietly changes shape. The India cap - once the singular obsession - begins to feel impossibly dis tant. The Indian Premier League, meanwhile, glows close enough to touch. Franchise cricket has become not the first step on the staircase - but the final destination. For players from major crick eting States, this shift car ries its own pressures. For those from smaller ones - Goa, Tripu ra, Uttarakhand - it means something different entirely. It means that the single b...