India's teen spirit
India are the reigning Under-19 World Champions but the squad that will travel to New Zealand to defend the title is a fresh one and does not include any of Virat Kohli's men
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
India are the reigning Under-19 World Champions but the squad that will travel to New Zealand to defend the title is a fresh one and does not include any of Virat Kohli's men. Sandeep Diwedi met the latest lot of India hopefuls in Mumbai and tells their tale in the Indian Express.
Skipper Ashok Meenaria, for example, is one of the first people from Udaipur's community of temple priests to take up sport as a career, while the team's premier spinner - left-armer Harmeet Singh - is the son of a Mumbai-based property dealer and an exception in his own family for his choice of vocation ... At the opposite end of that spectrum, perhaps, is wicketkeeper Sufiyan Shaikh. Sufiyan used to either get snubbed or slapped by his father if he walked into the house lugging a kit bag.
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo