On a nondescript mofussil street in Bihar’s Samastipur district stands an unremarkable house—except for a cemented pitch, enclosed by nets, to its left. “Whose house is this?” a visibly excited girl, no more than eight years old, asks her two friends—a girl and a boy, both not younger than six. “Tell me, tell me!” she insists but, without waiting for a reply, blurts out the name herself: “Vaibhav Suryavanshi, the batting sensation!” Her face lights up, as if she has won a contest, and the three friends pause a while, taking in the sight, before walking on, a happy spring in their steps.