8-year-old boy impresses cricket lovers with his batting skills, fans want him to replace KL Rahul – Watch

An eight-year-old boy has taken social media by storm ever since a video of him playing various cricketing shots with perfection, went viral on social media. The little boy has been identified as Aarav.

The video of the boy was shared by ESPNcrickinfo. Taking to its Twitter handle, ESPN wrote, “Eight-year-old Aarav is a big fan of Bazball. #YourShots sent by Anil Batra.”

With over 93.1K views, the video has garnered over 576 likes, and 37 retweets, and the numbers are slowly increasing. Internet is impressed with the cute little boy’s batting techniques.

Eight-year-old Aarav is a big fan of Bazball 💥

📹 #YourShots sent by Anil Batra pic.twitter.com/fYlhnqe2Mc

— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) March 8, 2023

In the viral video, Aarav can be seen hitting the cricket ball for beautiful shots during a practice session. Many cricket legends and sports lovers hailed the boy for his amazing talent and expressed their astonishment upon watching him play the ball with so much perfection. 

“Very impressed with the boy’s footwork. Would have found it difficult to dismiss him with my loopy leggies when I was a junior. Amazing skills and technique for an 8-year-old,” commented one user.

Another user hilariously wrote, “He should be in the India team replacing KL Rahul.”

The little boy reminded a fan of the cover drive of Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar who wrote, “His cover drives resembles Sachin.”

“He’s better than Zak Crawley already tbf,” commented another user.

“These kids are the future of Indian cricket after Shubhman Gill,” wrote another user.

A user also wrote, “Lovely sights… hope he grows up to play professional cricket.”