Cricket World Cup: Rachin Ravindra, marked for greatness at 15, comes of age

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Cricket World Cup: Rachin Ravindra, marked for greatness at 15, comes of age

After stitching together fourth-highest World Cup stand with Devon
Conway in New Zealand's opener, Ravindra becomes Kiwis go-to man


Hyderabad: A story in Wellington cricket circles goes that one morning,
Cricket Wellington’s youth development coach Ivan Tissera tagged a
10-year-old boy to the Hutt Recreation Ground in Lower Hutt Wellington
for a nets session with the U-15s. The boy, barely four and a half feet,
was asked to pad up against Henry Walsh, a nearly six-foot tall left-arm
seamer, then touted as the next big thing in Wellington cricket. Walsh’s
parents grumbled over their son having to bowl at a nine-year-old. But
in barely 20 minutes, they were wondering why their son was being
subjected to this humiliation by a boy who was just a little taller than
the stumps. He not just batted emphatically but unpacked an array of
strokes that left the spectators stunned.

Among the marveled audience were then international cricketers Grant
Elliot and Matthew Bell, who wondered whether he was “Sachin” or
“Rachin”! The story is unverified, like most myths, but Rachin Ravindra
always made a buzz, not only with his portmanteau name after the two
legends of Indian cricket, but with his range of strokes too. So when
Sriram Krishnamurthy took over as Wellington Firebirds’ batting coach,
he wondered why there was a 15-year-old cricketer with them in the
extended squad. “Then I watched him bat and I realised why he was
there,” he recounts to this paper. “He had more strokes than any
15-year-old and was clearly mature beyond his years. Little wonder that
there was always a buzz around him,” he says.