In three years, he had made his means into the Indian squad for the U19 World Cup in South Africa and final yr, the then 17-year-old broke Pakistan nice Javed Miandad‘s file by changing into the youngest participant to attain 250 runs in first-class cricket together with his 266-run knock in Ranji Trophy for Jharkhand.
However he made one of the crucial eye-catching headlines on the IPL public sale in Mumbai on Tuesday when he was purchased for Rs 7.2 crore by the Delhi Capitals.
That the Capitals have been looking out for an Indian so as to add to the back-ups for a recovering Rishabh Pant was recognized. However their collection of the 19-year-old got here as a shock regardless of the scouting round him on this season’s home limited-overs tournaments.
A variety of these scouts have been impressed by the sheer ferocity of his unbeaten 37-ball 67 in a Vijay Hazare Trophy match in opposition to Maharshtra – a match-winning knock whereas coming into bat for Jharkhand at No. 6.
Kushagra’s father had constructed a library of cricket books at their house in Jamshedpur with the dream of instructing his son the technicalities of the sport and serving to him attain the heights that he had as soon as dreamt for himself.
“Every thing that the greats have written, be it Lewis, Bradman or Waugh, I received it in some way. I’d go and watch individuals on the nets and check out to determine the methods after which get again and skim what the books needed to say about the identical. There have been a minimum of 60-70 pictures and methods that I made a listing of. Every day, I’d make Kumar follow considered one of them,” Shrikant Kushagra, Kumar’s father and a district commissioner within the GST division, had earlier advised TOI.
The daddy-son duo’s perseverance and dedication in the direction of the sport appear to have borne fruit on Tuesday because the wicketkeeper-batter, who has scored 700 runs at a median of 46.66 in Listing A video games, was thought of a alternative for Pant by the Capitals workers led by Ricky Ponting.
