4/8/24, 11:45 AM IPL 2024 - CSK vs KKR - Angkrish Raghuvanshi wants to realise his dreams like no one has

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Raghuvanshi is still only 18 years old. So he could have played this year's Under-19 World Cup too. But he has left that life
behind. Over the past six months, he has broken into the toughest team in Indian domestic cricket - Mumbai - and has made a
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Batting at No. 3 for Kolkata Knight Riders against Delhi Capitals, he made 54 off just 27 balls. He just scores!
played that game as an
Impact Player, so he spent the rest of the night in the dugout while flashing big toothy grins, which was good because by the
time Shah Rukh Khan came over to ruffle his hair and pull him into a bear hug, he had had plenty of practice looking
magnificently cute.

"It was really special," Raghuvanshi said. "Earlier, I wasn't sure if he even knew my name, but now he does. I've been watching
him on TV from childhood. So to be with him like this feels good."

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Raghuvanshi was born in Delhi in 2005 to a family where he would have stuck out like a sore thumb if he hadn't picked up a
sport. His mother Malika used to play basketball. His father Avneet used to play tennis. His uncle Sahil Kukreja used to play
cricket, and that's whom he went to stay with when he was 11 years old.

A million things have to go right for anyone to live any dream, let alone one as fanciful as becoming a professional
sportsperson. One of those things, for Raghuvanshi, is the desire to be better than he was the day before. That is how he
ended up on the radar of people like Dinesh Lad, who has coached Rohit Sharma, and Abhishek Nayar, who has been with
him since his Mumbai Under-16 days.

"It's his work ethic; his ability to work hard is his strongest suit," Nayar said on Sunday. "A lot of people talk about skill as
something that's really important. But what matters for me is the willingness to work hard because that is a sort of talent too,
and not everyone possesses it. So yes, skill is something you can develop if you have the talent of working hard and try to
achieve the goal.

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— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) December 19, 2023

"I think that's something that stands out with him, and it always has for a number of years - the attitude to go get it, the
attitude to want to get better and the attitude to chase his dreams. He may not have been the most gifted player or a gifted
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