Journey to Stardom: 10 Indian Cricket Stars Who Started Their Journey With The U-19 World Cup

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9. Virender Sehwag (1998 ICC U-19 World Cup)

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Virender Sehwag

No one can compete Virender Sehwag when it comes to destructive batting. Extensively regarded as one of the most destructive batsmen of all time in the world cricket history, Sehwag played as an aggressive right-handed opening batsman.

Sehwag holds the record of scoring the highest score made by an Indian in Test cricket, which is 319 against South Africa. It was also the fastest triple century in the world cricket history, which came off only 278 balls. The journey of this legend started with the 1998 ICC U-19 World Cup.


10. Harbhajan Singh (1998 ICC U-19 World Cup)

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Harbhajan Singh

Though the 1998 ICC U-19 World Cup was not a gorgeous campaign for Harbhajan Singh, he didn't get overlooked by the selectors of India Team. The Turbanator was a teammate of Virender Sehwag in that edition of U-19 World Cup and for his side, he took 8 wickets at an economy rate of 3.44 in 6 matches. Later in that year, he secured his place in the senior team.

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