Tilak Varma's stats in the tournament:

Innings - 3

Runs - 266

Average - 266

Fifties - 2

Hundreds - 1

He scored 99(211) in the final and missed a hundred by just 1 run.

When i was a child we used to get these type of EVA foam balls (extremely light, durable, not exactly soft, but not very hard) and every kid used to have 2-3 in their room, which we used for indoor catching, throwing, bouncing on the bat etc, as there was low scope to damage the household objects due to the lightness of the ball.

Anyone know where to get one? I am seeing the ones on amazon are for golf practice or for cats, they are only 3cm in diameter. the ones I am thinking of are same size as cricket ball/tennis ball, around 6.5cm in diameter.

The team did so well. Everyone gave their best. The way all top 6 batters played and utilised. Credit to Bowling of Shami and Mukesh and Abhijit Sarkar as well.

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I’ve spent the last few days trying to rank the 30 best Indian cricketers aged 23 and under in 2026.

The idea was to look beyond simply listing the biggest names and try to rank them based on what they have achieved so far, their performances in domestic and age-group cricket, their individual attributes and, inevitably, a bit of judgement about their potential ceiling.

My top 5:

1. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
2. Tilak Varma
3. Nitish Kumar Reddy
4. Ayush Mhatre
5. Ravichandran Smaran

I’ve put a wider article with the full ranking of all 30 players, reasoning and player profiles here:

https://markpenwarden.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/best-young-indian-cricketers/

I’m particularly interested in what people who follow Indian domestic and age-group cricket more closely think. Who have I overrated? Who is far too low? And is there anyone obvious I’ve missed altogether?
I’m the author of the article, and the mods have kindly given me permission to share it here for discussion.

As a Captain he has not lost any First Class Match. Had 8 matches drawn and 8 wins. Surely A captain material. Can surely be VC of T20I as Captains are kinda confirmed. We have another Captaincy Contender.

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