As the shadows lengthened at the SNR College Grounds, screams of ‘Yes, Come on’ from Pradosh Ranjan Paul echoed around. It didn’t sound like a cry of relief or neither did it have a jubilant tone to it. It was filled with anger, as he had a century of note to show after a while. Last week, he had scored an unbeaten 201 against Nagaland, but this 113 against defending champions Vidarbha was worth more than that for him. Courtesy his second successive century and Baba Indrajith’s unbeaten 94, Tamil Nadu ended Day 1 at 252/4.

The OG prodigy, Pradosh has been a prolific scorer in age-group levels, one who always seemed to be cut from a different cloth and destined for bigger things thanks to his ability to score centuries regularly. A very compact technique that allows him to be a dominant en

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