India, Feb. 7 -- Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's Under-19 World Cup final wasn't just a match-winning knock - it was a statement so loud that the post match noise practically wrote itself. The only useful way to cut through the noise was to hear from the one person who has seen this mindset long before the world began framing it as "fearless": his father.

In a post match interaction, Vaibhav's father didn't sell the moment with drama. He explained the base traits that, in his view, make a teenager look unusually comfortable on a night where most crumble. And his central argument was simple: the calm you saw in the final wasn't discovered today - it has always been there.

"Yes, since the time he started playing, he has been a mentally strong chil...