The Burden Of Being 15: Vaibhav Suryavanshi and The Impossible Standard We’ve Set for Him

There’s something deeply troubling about the way cricket has embraced Vaibhav
Suryavanshi in the past year. Not because he doesn’t deserve the acclaim—he
manifestly does. But here’s what keeps me awake at night: he shouldn’t have had
to carry that burden. A personal column on the impossible standard we’ve set
for a 15-year-old cricket prodigy.