Try and try until you succeed. The saying holds perfectly for young cricketer Naman Pushpak, who failed to make it through the Mumbai Cricket Association’s (MCA) U-14, U-16 and U-19 summer camps until a few years ago, before finally being selected at last year’s U-19 camp at the Sachin Tendulkar Gymkhana in Kandivli. Teenaged Pushpak hasn’t looked back since.

Within a year, he broke into the Mumbai U-19 team and a few months later, the India U-19 side and went on to tour England in June-July.

There, he claimed six scalps in three one-day matches against the England U-19 team, and finished with a match-haul of five wickets in a Youth Test against England at Chelmsford. The performance has earned him a spot on the India U-19 tour to Australia, starting on September 21 at Norths.