The Prodigy XI: Will Vaibhav Sooryavanshi make it?

History’s verdict on teenage prodigies is clear-eyed and unsentimental. Across nearly 150 years of international cricket, it has produced a Tendulkar and a Sobers, a Waqar and a Mushtaq. The queue to join them is long, the attrition rate high, and it mostly ends in footnotes.