Urvil Mukesh Patel is an Indian cricketer whose name became synonymous with explosive batting long before the rest of the country properly caught up with what those who follow Gujarat domestic cricket had known for years. He was born on October 17, 1998, in the village of Kahipur in Mehsana, Gujarat, and it was on…
Prince Yadav was born on December 12, 2001, in Najafgarh, a town on the southwestern outskirts of the Delhi National Capital Region. His father, Ram Niwas Yadav, works as an ASI in the Railway Protection Force, a detail that grounds his story in the working-class, service-oriented India from which so many of the country’s most…
Krish Bhagat is a 21-year-old Indian cricketer from Jalandhar, Punjab, whose journey from local school cricket to the Indian Premier League is one of the most compelling stories of resilience and quiet determination to emerge from domestic cricket in recent years. He was born on November 6, 2004, into a family that sits at the…
Vaibhav Suryavanshi, whose name is also spelled Sooryavanshi in several official records, is an Indian cricketer who has done something no teenager in the history of the sport has managed quite so comprehensively. He has not merely shown promise. He has delivered, repeatedly and emphatically, against the best bowling attacks in one of the most…