MANCHESTER, July 5 -- The over that decided this match had nothing to do with the boy who made the history. Two no-balls, two free hits, twenty-nine runs. By the time Ravi Bishnoi's 17th over ended, Jacob Bethell had turned a contest into a formality, and the record India's teenager broke earlier in the evening had already become the answer to a trivia question rather than the story of the match.

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi walked out at Old Trafford on Saturday as India's youngest international cricketer, 15 years and 99 days old, displacing a record Sachin Tendulkar had held for 36 years since his own Test debut against Pakistan at 16 years and 205 days. The number itself tells you almost nothing about what actually happened once he reached t...