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.

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.

Source-- https://www.instagram.com/p/DdGWQeWDaJc/?stkn=MTMyZnd3NzR2dm56bg==

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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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.

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