Who is Yash Dhull, U19 World Cup Winning Captain?

As Captain of the U-19 cricket world cup, Yash Dhull has created not just cricketing history, but also whetted the curiosity of this cricket-mad nation to learn all that there is to know about this remarkable young man. This 19-year-old Delhi-born cricketer has been representative of the new breed of Kohli-inspired doughty youngsters who place great stress on toughness and resilience in the face of adversity above everything else. This was proved by the elan he demonstrated in bouncing back from Covid and leading his side to lift the world cup in Antigua.

Scoring an unbeaten twenty in the first match (the quarter-final) he played post-Covid and a feisty 110 in the semifinal, he proved that he had it in him to be a world-beater. A product of the Bal Bhawan School in Dwarka, which runs an amazing cricket academy run by Delhi Capitals his talent was clearly visible even when he was in sixth grade playing more than fifteen games a month. According to his coach, Nagar Dhull may have played as many as 2000 matches!

He played not just across North India by age 16 going on to tour Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Malaysia. His great potential was evident from the fact that he won the U-19 player of the series award in Nepal at the tender age of 15. By age 16 he had made it to the state U-19 team. Clearly following in the footsteps of Kohli, who grew up in a neighborhood in Delhi not far from where Kohli spent his childhood, he focused on batting the full fifty overs, something that stood him in very good stead in his career going forward.

Young Dhull is quite similar to Kohli in the way that he grafts his innings but has a style of play that is different from the latter. How far he emulates Kohli’s stupendous success is something that all cricketing fans would be keenly watching.