5 young Indian cricketers to watch out for in IPL 7

The swashbuckling, firecracking, highspending, paparazzi attracting tournament of Indian cricket is back and is about to enter its seventh edition in the coming week. The Indian Premier League has faced several challenges of late with the India Cements controversy and thus has been in the news for all the wrong reasons over the past few months.But the flipside of cricket’s most watched T20 league in the world tells you the story of the Ravichandran Ashwins, the Ravindra Jadejas and the David Milers who took their first steps up the ladder courtesy of this very event. Thus for the unearthed cricketing talent, the competition serves as a launchpad for towering success given the opportunity is grabbed with both hands.As a testimony to this fact, uncapped players have been one of the major talking points of the pre season build up as they were included in the auctioning process for the first time by the BCCI. It became evident how much franchises value uncapped players when Rajasthan Royals Kings XI Punjab retained set examples by retaining their uncapped performers. Given their prudence in the previous seasons, both the uncapped players Rishi Dhawan and Karn Sharma also earned themselves mindboggling contracts.In lieu with the same, we look at five amongst several promising Indian uncapped players who could do the same in the upcoming season of Indian cricket’s most followed extravaganza.

#5 Vijay Zol (Royal Challengers Bangalore)

Maharashtra’s run to the final of the Ranji Trophy this season was built upon strong performances from their batting order. The youngest of that lot was India’s Under19 captain Vijay Zol, who managed 553 runs at 46.08 including an unbeaten double ton on debut.

The lefthander first shot to prominence with a monumental 451 in a Cooch Behar Under-19 game in 2011. Aside from junior cricket, his impressive CV includes a century on first-class debut - against an international attack.  Zol was fast-tracked into the India A side before his Maharashtra debut. Against a New Zealand A attack that included Mark Gillespie and Doug Bracewell, he smashed 19 fours in his 110.

But things got terribly derailed when his side were knocked out of the Under19 world cup in a close finish against England, following which the skipper also suffered a one-match ban for improper conduct. However, the Jalna colt very recently set up Maharashtra’s win against Mumbai in their Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy encounter.
Playing under the leadership of a former captain of an Indian U19 team at RCB, who is now the considered the future of Indian cricket, Zol will be a part of a batting order cajoled with several heavyweights. He must be patient for his turn and bank in on the break whenever it arrives