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Behind Rachin Ravindra’s World Cup success, a yearly India tour with the club side owned his father
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As chants of “Rachiiiiin, Rachiiiin,” resounded around the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, TA Balakrishna Adiga, a noted education from south Bangalore, was struggling to hold back his emotions with wife and daughter the side.
After all, his grandson Rachin Ravindra, playing only his first-ever World Cup, had managed to do what no New Zealander has ever done before – three centuries in a single edition. And as he walked back to a thunderous applause after making a 94-ball 108, which takes his tally in the tournament to 523 runs, equalling what Sachin Tendulkar made in the 1996 edition, Adiga was a proud thaatha in every true sense. Rachin’s tally is also the most a player less than 25 at a World Cup.
This has been a coming of age World Cup for Rachin. Had Kane Williamson been fit and available for the initial part of New Zealand’s campaign, there was a strong chance that Rachin would have spent most of his time here warming the bench. With Devon Conway and the in-form Will Young at the top, Rachin boarded the flight to India, only as a back-up batting option. But eight matches into their campaign, it is the 23-year-old Rachin who has stood out as Kiwis flag-bearer. (READ MORE)
