Virat Kohli's U-19 World Cup 2008 teammate Tanmay Srivastava retires from cricket aged 30

Indian domestic cricketer and former U-19 team captain Tanmay Srivastava has anunced his retirement from cricket. Srivastava, d 30, took to Twitter to anunce his decision to step down from his Ranji Trophy team and any or national commitments he h. Srivastava came into limelight of cricketing world as a teenr while playing Ranji Trophy and captaining India Men's U-19 team. His career path seemed to show much promise, but somewhere along way, things fizzled out, and everything didn't turn out as well as he might've once hoped. 

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Tanmay Srivastava: Ex-U-19 captain anunces his retirement from cricket

Tanmay Srivastava's journey through Indian cricket is one that is more common than it seems. Many potential Indian cricketers could t live up to promise y h as y tried to make leap from domestic cricket to international cricket. As captain of U-19 Indian team at of 16, Tanmay Srivastava guided likes of Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jeja and Manish Pandey in his side. Even though he lost out on captaincy to Kohli a few years later, he remained in side. 

At  2008 U-19 World Cup in Malaysia, Tanmay Srivastava finished as tournament’s leing run-scorer, having me 262 runs. His 43 off 74 balls was highest score of  Indian innings in  final that year, pushing ir total to 159. This me a world of difference as South Africa fell for 103 in just 25 overs, giving Kohli his first taste at glory on big st.

That World Cup performance netted Srivastava a deal with Punjab IPL franchise for first edition of Indian Premier League. In 2008, Srivastava mand to make just 8 runs on 5 matches for Punjab. Despite this, he was retained for next edition, where he me 0 runs in 2 games. 

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He was also one of hopefuls to make Indian team after his blazing World Cup performance, However, this also did t pan out. Srivastava's best performances came in Ranji Trophy where he represented Uttar Presh, team with which he would reach Ranji Trophy finals three times in a row.

Tanmay Srivastava ends his career with 4,918 first-class runs from 90 games, making 10 centuries and 27 half-centuries - small feat in a country where hundreds fight for a spot in domestic events like Ranji Trophy. 

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Post-retirement plans 

Shrivastava, who is an employee of ONGC, has said that he has immediate plans for what he do post-retirement but felt that it was unfair of him to take up a spot that could be used a younger cricketer to better ir game. He has said that he will continue to play corporate tournaments for ONGC as of w and that he has bigger aspirations and newer dreams. 

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