Referring to child prodigies, celebrated Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and music teacher Itzhak Perlman described them as “ a curse because you’ve got all those terrible possibilities.” The operative word here is of course ‘possibilities’. In the sporting sphere too many have been blessed with tremendous potential, many labeled ‘gifted’, proclaimed as the ‘next big thing’ and quite a few precocious performers who have lost their way completely to disappear into […]

Teenager Prithvi Shaw became the youngest Indian to make a century on his Test debut on day one of the first Test against West Indies in Rajkot. Shaw, 18, reached his hundred off just 99 balls to surpass the record of Abbas Ali Baig. The opener is also the fourth youngest player of all time to hit a debut ton and the second youngest Indian to make a Test century […]