India, Feb. 6 -- Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is 14, and he just played a U19 World Cup final innings that felt less like youth cricket and more like a glimpse of cricket's future.

In Harare, the teenager blasted 175 off 80 balls against England, powering India to 411/9 - a total that didn't just win a final, it made the game look temporarily out of scale.

We overuse the word "prodigy". But every once in a while, an innings forces comparison not because the kid needs hype, but because the knock itself speaks the language of the sport's great outliers - the ones that changed what batters believed they were allowed to do.

Sooryavanshi's 175 is that kind of innings. It didn't feel like a score; it felt like a takeover. And to explain why, it help...