3 min learnJun 11, 2026 09:25 PM IST
When Yashbardhan Singh Chauhan picked up a cricket bat for the primary time on the age of six, his father Anami knew from the grip alone. The fingers had been in the proper place. That was sufficient. He enrolled his son at Lavkesh Chaudhary’s cricket academy in Gwalior the identical week.
On Thursday, his son was named captain of India’s under-19 aspect for the tour of Sri Lanka subsequent month — three one-day matches and two multi-day video games.
“My father was additionally a club-level cricketer. The way in which I held the bat for the primary time — jaise meine bat pakda — it was the proper approach. So he determined to enroll me in one of many academies in Gwalior,” Yashbardhan mentioned.
The phrase unfold quick as soon as he began scoring. Within the A W Kanmadikar Trophy, the MPCA’s under-13 inter-divisional event, he scored 425, 235 and 391 in successive innings — round 1,300 runs in 5 matches. He was 13.
Since then he has led the MP aspect at under-14, under-16 and under-19 degree with out interruption.
When Covid-19 shut the world down, Anami drove 40 kilometres on daily basis — Gwalior to Murena and again — so his son might attend follow. The periods continued. The runs continued.
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Coach Charanjit Bhangu, who has educated him since 2007, remembers the cricketing intelligence as a lot because the run-scoring. “He had an excellent cricketing IQ. As soon as throughout a Punjab U-16 tour to Madhya Pradesh, the coach despatched him in as an opener — he had by no means batted so excessive. He scored 145,” Bhangu mentioned.
Final season Yashbardhan scored 550 runs with a highest rating of 223.
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A yr in the past, he met Rajat Patidar. The senior MP and India participant requested him about his scores, favored what he heard, and handed over his personal helmet and gloves.
“For me my first aim was to get chosen for India under-19. Everybody at house is joyful and excited however I do know I’ve an extended strategy to go. It was final yr I met Rajat bhai. He requested me about my scores and was joyful so he gave me his helmet and gloves. I wish to play lengthy innings — usmein ek alag maza hai,” he mentioned.
He’s seventeen. His father runs a enterprise making wheat flour machines. His mom is a housewife. He doesn’t have a sporting idol however he follows Cristiano Ronaldo for what the Portuguese ahead needed to overcome to get the place he did. In Indian cricket, he watches Virat Kohli — particularly, the health.
“I haven’t needed to sacrifice as a lot, but when he can sacrifice a lot to indicate the world, then god has given me every thing. I’ve such father. If I maintain working laborious, I can do it too,” he mentioned.
The tour begins July 4 in Hambantota.
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