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VC Vinayak Shukla: Vinayak Shukla’s rise in international cricket has been anything but conventional. Growing up in the busy lanes of Kanpur in the early 2000s, Shukla learned the game the way many Indian cricketers do, on the streets, where adaptability, sharp reflexes, and instinct matter more than textbook technique.

That street-honed style would later define him, even as it led to him being overlooked in age-group cricket, echoing the early struggles once faced by the legendary Mahendra Singh Dhoni.