New Delhi, May 3 -- At 18, most teenagers are balancing studies and early steps into adulthood. Aryaman Varma, meanwhile, is doing all that, but in addition to bowling to the likes of KL Rahul and Faf du Plessis in Delhi Capitals' nets, exchanging cricketing philosophies with Kuldeep Yadav, and trying to earn his way into international cricket -- with a Wisden Schools Cricketer of the Year award now under his belt.

The leg-spinning all-rounder, who captained Eton College in England and took a staggering 51 wickets this season -- the most by any schoolboy cricketer in the UK -- is living out a script that seems straight from a cricketing fairytale. On April 22, he was honoured with Wisden's prestigious award, joining an elite list that in...