| കണിത്⁇ കർ | Mangalam

Mumbai: The Silver Jubilee Independence-Cup-Cricket Final held in Dhaka, Bangladesh in the late nineties. In the same match, India responded to Pakistan’s 315-run victory in the third match of the Best of Three finals. After Sourav Ganguly’s century (124), Robin Singh’s half-century (82) and Sachin Tendulkar’s 41 runs, the batsmen forgot about duty and stared at India.

Captain Mohammad Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja, Navjot Singh Sidhu and Nayan Mongi were among the young batsmen who returned to bat under pressure. He needed three runs off two balls to win and the ball bounced off the boundary.

Not much was heard about the janitors who came in seventh that day and scored 11 off 12 balls. Twenty-four years after Yash Dhool and his team finally clinched the Under – 19 World Cup title, the juniors have once again reached the silver lining. Not as a player, but as a teenage coach – only to be the center of attention this time around. Rahul Dravid, the current senior team coach, has previously coached the Under-19 team as a batting coach. The former coach, who took over as the team’s head coach last December, has been the driving force behind the team’s victory over Covid.