Hogan was no slouch himself in cracking 104 from 84 balls in the third youth ODI of last year’s tour, during a 180-run stand with fellow wunderkind Ollie Peake (111). But instead of taking the fast track to the top, Hogan is completing Year 12 in Brisbane, and hopes for the relatively modest reward of a Queensland rookie contract for next season. In addition to the bat swap, Hogan and Vaibhav chatted cricket, including the myriad questions about how much older than 14 the Indian teenager might be. His birthday is listed as March 27, 2011, but he once said in an interview he would turn 14 on September 23, 2023. That would make him 15 years, 7 months, and 6 days old. Whatever his actual age, Vaibhav is still a head turner for cricket. As CricViz analyst Ben Jones has put it, Vaibhav looks “like he was created in a lab to play Twenty20 cricket”. His high backlift, cocked wrists and lavish follow through are ideally modelled for hitting the ball a long way, with something of the flourish that Brian Lara once showcased for the West Indies.