Wonder Boy: Ayush Jethwa

Just 12 years of age, Ayush Jethwa is already achieved many a milestones in his small but successful cricketing career. Recently he played a couple of high profile tournaments namely CPCC which is organized by Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA), and Giles Shield, which is an inter-school cricket tournament for the schools in Mumbai.

This southpaw batsman had a prolific record in both these tournaments. Ayush represented Payyade Sports Club in CPCC tournament and also won the prestigious U-14 Best Batsman award for his terrific performance (187 runs). Jethwa was a star performer in Giles Shield as well. He played for his school SVIS. Some of his best scores in Giles Shield were 102 not out off just 60 balls and 115 runs. He scored tons and tons of runs, which included 11 fifties and a couple of centuries, one of which was against Manav Vidya Mandir. If you look at his performance for this year, he has scored a mammoth 1425 runs off just 25 matches. He is truly a run machine you can say.

Not only does he let his bat do all the talking, but also when he is handed the ball, he can make any batsmen quiet. Ayush picked up 25 wickets in as many matches, which proves that he is pretty handy with the ball as well.

Child prodigy Ayush Jethwa is an upcoming talent and certainly has a long way to go in game of Cricket. Let us hope that Ayush shines as bright as the star at the highest level and makes Mumbai proud.