Youngest W. Cup cricketer inspired by dad's death

Zimbabwe bowler Ray Price (right) takes a locate to boot Canadian cricketer Nitish Kumar (centre) during a ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 compare during a Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium track in Nagpur. Sixteen-year-old schoolboy Kumar became a youngest ever World Cup player, though his usually bewail was which his father, killed in a 2005 automobile crash, was not there to see it.
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NAGPUR, India (AFP) – Sixteen-year-old schoolboy Nitish Kumar became a youngest ever World Cup player upon Monday, though his usually bewail was which his father, killed in a 2005 automobile crash, was not there to see it.

The teen was declared in Canada’s group to face Zimbabwe as well as during sixteen years as well as 283 days, supplanted Bangladesh’s Talha Jubair, who was seventeen years as well as 70 days aged when he featured opposite a West Indies in a 2007 World Cup.

But his entrance was kaleidoscopic with sadness.

His father Vikal was killed in a automobile collision in England whilst upon a cricket debate in 2005 with Kumar, eleven during a time, in a behind seat.

He was hospitalised for roughly a month as well as did not sense of his father’s genocide until returning to Canada.

“It would have been easy for me to container it in,” Kumar told a Toronto Star newspaper.

“My father longed for me to fool around during a top turn as well as where we am right away is since of him, my family as well as my coach. Without them, I’d be lost. There was a time when we would fool around for myself, though right away we fool around for my father.”

Sadly, Kumar’s World Cup entrance was not quite memorable.

After Zimbabwe had done 298-9, a opening batsman, who has been since a month off by his propagandize to take partial in a World Cup, was out for usually a single after confronting usually 10 balls.

Canada were discharged for usually 123 to remove by 175 runs.

But captain Asish Bagai shielded a preference to give Kumar his chance.

“We had told Nitish to suffer his game. We do not have any expectations from him. That will be as well most of a vigour for a youngster.

“He still has a prolonged approach to go as well as will certainly sense with experience.”

Before a World Cup, Kumar had played 5 ODIs for Canada, creation his entrance opposite Afghanistan in Sharjah in Feb 2010.

Nicknamed ‘Tendulkar’, he was innate in May 1994, four-and-a-half years after Sachin Tendulkar’s general entrance opposite Pakistan in 1989.

Canada have a oldest as well as youngest player in a contest with a oldest, 40-year-old John Davison, opening a batting with a youngster.

“The initial time we saw Nitish was 10 years behind when he was usually six. we was vacant to see a six-year-old’s carry out over his shots,” pronounced Davison.

“Even during which age, he could strike lift shots as well as we felt he was a special talent.”