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RECORD-SETTING SONS
Patrick Kidd (THIS SPORTING LIFE, FEBRUARY) writes with his customary sagacity about teenage sporting sensations and the difficulty so many of them have in sustaining early promise.
He mentions Vinod Kambli who at 16 was discussed in the same breath as his schoolboy contemporary, Sachin Tendulkar, but whose initially promising Test career was over within three