His first ODI century for India, an unbeaten 121 in Ahmedabad on Thursday, couldn't have come at a better time for the 29-year-old, who had, at a young age, caught the eye of the pundits here for his remarkable ability to pick the length of the ball very early and essay shots with time to spare.
"He came to me when he was just seven, learnt the basics and quickly graduated to the regular nets. Seeing his talent, we put him in the senior nets and he proved us right by scoring a century in the HCA A1 Division two-day league match when he was just 13," his first coach Vijay Paul told TOI on Thursday.
The local media was soon abuzz with his exploits after he scored 160 odd runs out of the 180 plus his team scored in an inter-school meet. His rise continued to be steady and two centuries on his Ranji Trophy debut for Hyderabad against Andhra only heightened expectations.
He was part of the U-15 Asia Cup team, led the India U-19 team in the World Cup in Dhaka, where the likes of Suresh Raina and Irfan Pathan played under him and his century for India Colts in Taunton, England earned praise from Sachin Tendulkar. Thereabouts, the wheels came off. A spat with HCA meant he had to shift base to Andhra for a season following which he came back to Hyderabad, but the move to the now defunct Indian Cricket League (ICL) went against him.
So while his peers and juniors went up the rungs to play for India, Rayudu toiled in the domestic league after his return to the Hyderabad team following BCCI's amnesty to ICL players returning to the fold.
It was not long before the Indian Premier League (IPL) came calling and Rayudu didn't think twice before accepting Tendulkar's call to join the Mumbai Indians, for whom he has been a consistent performer. "Just to share the same dressing room as my idol Sachin is an unbelievable feeling," he had remarked then. He also shifted base to Baroda, where after a string of big scores, he came back into national reckoning once again.
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