In junior cricket, the ‘Sehwag vs. Dravid’ contest was as enticing as it could get.
It has been close to a decade since a BCCI tournament scorecard featured two of the greatest names in Indian cricket: Virender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid. However, on Monday, the three-day match between Karnataka and Delhi in the Vijay Merchant Trophy National U-16 boys’ tourney certainly had a different zing to it as the team list featured a Dravid and a Sehwag, albeit for rival sides.
The U-16 captain of Karnataka, Anvay Dravid, and Delhi’s dashing opening batter, Aryavir Sehwag, are fighting it out for their respective state teams.
While they met with contrasting results on Day 1—Dravid junior getting out for a duck while junior Sehwag remaining unbeaten on 50—the ‘Sehwag vs. Dravid’ contest in junior cricket was as enticing as it could get.
Anvay, the younger son of former India skipper and current head coach Dravid, is also the team’s wicketkeeper, while Sehwag’s elder son believes in giving the new ball a mighty thwack like his father. It’s been a fine year for the ‘Gen-Next’ of Indian cricket’s golden generation.
