With India’s U-19 world cup team, cricket casts a wider net, mirrors a nation’s diversity
THE 15 youngsters who lifted the Under-19 World Cup trophy in Harare last Friday represent something far more significant than an addition to India’s growing cabinet of cricketing silverware. They are the latest testimony to a revolution that has been unfolding across the country’s hinterlands — a story of aspiration meeting opportunity, of talent refusing to be constrained by circumstance or geography. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi hails from Tajpur in Bihar’s Samastipur, a district that ranks........
