India, May 22 -- Shubman Gill and Abhishek Sharma may be star cricketers now, but they, too, like the countless before them, come from humble beginnings. Gill and Sharma gutted it out in the domestic circuit for Punjab before breaking into the Indian Under-19 team. Together, they won the World Cup in 2018 in Mount Maunganui before finally being rewarded with an India cap. The 2018 U-19 World Cup-winning team gave Indian cricket quite a few names - Prithvi Shaw, Riyan Parag and Arshdeep Singh being the other notable names - and while Gill debuted for India a lot before Abhishek, in 2019 against New Zealand, the two are now making heads turn with every passing tournament.

While Gill has escalated to become one of the contenders for India's...