By R KaushikBengaluru boy Mayank Agarwal, who scored a double century as India’s Test opener, is here to stay For Mayank Agarwal, cricket is more than a passion and profession. It’s a way of life, if not life itself. This might seem redundant given that, after all, he is playing for the country, and extremely successfully at that. Agarwal, though, is the antithesis of the modern day, chest-thumping, bling-driven cricketer who takes success for granted, and who scoffs at failure, as though it is an undeserving intruder thrust upon him by the conspiracies of circumstances. on him. Agarwal seemed destined for a long, glorious stint in the top echelons of world cricket when he made giant strides as a teenager. Alongside KL Rahul and Karun Nair, he formed the batting backbone of the Karnataka Under-19 side, more than a decade back. Rahul and Agarwal, the greatest of mates even today, despite the oscillating nature of their career graphs, opened for India at the Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand, in 2010. At that point, even disregarding the hyperbole that magnetically attaches itself to emerging Indian batsmen, it seemed inevitable that at some stage in the future, the two would be… Read full this story
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