Kolkata, Sept. 9 -- For a stretch of five overs on Tuesday afternoon, something surreal unfolded at the Chepauk stadium. From one end bowled Mohammed Shami, 36 and still capable of making a cricket ball behave in ways batters would rather it did not. From the other end was Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, 15 and whose cricket education is still in its earliest chapters. For five overs either side of tea on Day 3, the veteran and the prodigy bowled in tandem, a 21-year age gap compressed into the same spell of a Duleep Trophy final. Not just unusual, this was a pairing rarely seen in cricket at any stage. In 1990, a 17-year-old Sachin Tendulkar had first bowled in an ODI at Nottingham, with Kapil Dev, then 31, the most senior bowler in the attack. That...