Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s jaw-dropping century acquired TOI to hit the rewind button and recall exploits of different gifted Indian cricketers who turned teenage superstars.
Sachin Tendulkar
It’s a pity there isn’t a official file of that mad sport in Peshawar in Dec 1989. Dangerous mild ensured that an ODI was transformed to a 20-over exhibition match. A T20, a decade and a half earlier than T20 was formally invented. Tendulkar, all of 16, walked in when India wanted 69 runs from 5 overs to chase down Pakistan’s 157. He smashed Mushtaq Ahmed for 2 sixes, which prompted legendary Pakistani leggie Abdul Qadir to slide within the now-infamous barb, “Bachchon ko kyon mar rahe ho? Hamein bhi maar ke dikhao (why are you hitting youngsters? Hit my deliveries and present me).” The 16-year-old obliged, hitting Qadir for six, 0, 4, 6, 6, 6. Tendulkar ended up with an 18-ball 53 and have become the temper barometer of a cricket-mad nation for the subsequent 25 years.
Yuvraj Singh
Tales of a younger Punjab southpaw depositing balls from Churchgate’s Oval maidan onto the streets had already began doing the rounds in Mumbai when he was coaching on the Vengsarkar academy. Yuvraj Singh, 18, son of former India pacer Yograj Singh, was a star of India’s victorious U-19 WC marketing campaign in Sri Lanka, and made it to the Indian staff. Within the ICC KnockOut quarterfinal in opposition to Australia in Nairobi, he entered with India in hassle at 90/3. The facility and punch that he generated whereas enjoying off the backfoot to pacers like Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee and Jason Gillespie left spectators awestruck. Yuvraj went on to grow to be an amazing in white-ball cricket.
Irfan Pathan
You suppose solely Pakistani magician Wasim Akram had the copyright to maneuver an previous ball? Search ‘Irfan Pathan + Adam Gilchrist + 2004 Sydney’. And, in case you’re nonetheless at school, open your geometry textbook and proceed learning the parabola. That’s what this 19-yearold from Baroda produced to dismiss the savage Aussie batter. Altering his line of assault from spherical to over the wicket, Irfan drew Gilchrist ahead, created a spot, acquired the ball to tail in at his toes very late and defeated Gilchrist’s defences to hit timber. It was sorcery. Fittingly, it was Invoice Lawry’s roar of “bowled him, what a ripper” that known as the second.
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Laxman Sivaramakrishnan
The ‘Boy Surprise’ earlier than Sachin Tendulkar and the youngest to play for India in a Check as a 17-year-old in 1983, vs West Indies in Antigua. Twirling the ball from proper to left, beating batters with dip and switch, Siva, as he was popularly known as, seemed as if he could be India’s subsequent Chandra. Watch Javed Miandad’s stumping within the WCC remaining in 1985, or his organising of Allan Lamb with a magical googly in the identical match. A match haul of 12/181 vs England on the Wankhede in Nov 1984, two months previous to his Australia heroics, served ample discover of his expertise. In a tragic loss for Indian cricket, his profession went downhill from there on.
Prithvi Shaw
With the nation nonetheless coping with Sachin Tendulkar’s retirement at an emotional Wankhede per week in the past, Prithvi Shaw appeared to have taken it upon himself to fill the void. Aged 14, he smashed 546 for Rizvi Springfield vs St. Francis d’ Assisi in a Harris Protect match in Nov 2013 at Azad Maidan, barely two kilometres away from Wankhede. 4 years later, 100 on Ranji debut vs Tamil Nadu within the semis adopted. Six months later, he emulated Tendulkar to attain a ton on Duleep Trophy debut. After main India to the U-19 World Cup in New Zealand in Feb 2018, the world was at his ft. A ton on Check debut at Rajkot adopted vs West Indies. Sadly, fame and off-field indiscretions noticed him slip down the pecking order.