India, Oct. 6 -- Let us begin with a cricket quiz. Name the India Under-19 captain who once had Sanju Samson, Shreyas Iyer, Sarfaraz Khan, Deepak Hooda, Kuldeep Yadav and Avesh Khan in and around his team. All of them went on to represent India on the senior stage, but the captain never did.

Need another clue? He once scored 451 not out in age-group cricket, scored a century for India A on his first-class debut, and then followed it with an unbeaten double century on his Ranji Trophy debut. Okay, another more revealing clue: he has shared the RCB dressing room with Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, and Chris Gayle.

At this point, not getting the name would lead to the general assumption that an injury had hit him, and as a result, he had fai...