Cricket

Athletes on The Medalist Index in cricket — briefed for readers who care how Asia shapes the global game.

Shubman Gill
India
India’s Test and ODI captain — Punjab opener, IPL Orange Cap winner, and the post-Rohit white-ball succession plan.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
India
Bihar left-hander who won the IPL Orange Cap at 15 — then scored India’s youngest men’s T20I fifty. Franchise cricket finished the case before the BCCI did.