By It was the January of 2016 and just like every alternate year, this was the year when a bunch of youngsters from the top cricket playing nations would get a chance to fast track their respective careers by putting on a show in the ICC U-19 World Cup. By this time the tournament had become a platform to identify the next big stars of international cricket as many had done well in this tournament and gone on to achieve greatness at the highest stage.
India, perennial favourites in age-group cricket, were led into the tournament by a young wicket-keeper batsman from Jharkhand, the same state team that the colossus Mahendra Singh Dhoni represented. Ishan Kishan, India’s captain was tipped to be the man to watch out for but he had competition from within his team. Young Delhi wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant was already making headlines for his ‘devil-may-care’ batting style and he lit the tournament up with his slam bang hitting.
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Pant slammed a century and two half-centuries to end the tournament with 267 runs from 6 matches as India finished runners-up to West Indies. The captain Kishan had a disastrous tournament, scoring just 73 runs from 6 matches with one half-century and had the worst average among all Indian batsmen.
