Vaibhav Suryavanshi: Cricket’s 14-year-old prodigy must beware the cautionary tales of sport’s starlets

Whatever happened to Freddy Adu? It is a question many will have asked in the 20 years since he made his senior debut. You may recall the tale of the Ghana-born, USA-raised teenage football phenom, drafted into Major League Soccer (MLS) as a 14-year-old accompanied by the loftiest of comparisons with Pele. This, the headlines cried, was the wunderkind to drive America’s footballing expansion; the face of the future and the boy to carry the burden of a nation’s dreams on his shoulders