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At a clip erstwhile his classmates are taking babe steps to ace the last examinations backmost location aboriginal this year, fast-rising Namibia medium-pacer Max Heingo is facing 1 of cricket’s toughest shortest-format tests astatine the T20 World Cup.
The 17-year-old Heingo, who cleared the Class XI exams arsenic a pupil of the Flamingo Secondary School successful Walvis Bay past year, has been fixed peculiar exemption aft being called up to ‘feel the thrill’ of the T20 extravaganza.
“After penning my Grade XI last exams, I did not person clip to negociate schoolhouse due to the fact that I got selected for the World Cup. But erstwhile I spell backmost to Namibia, I volition surely proceed with my schoolhouse work,” Heingo, 1 of the youngest players to diagnostic successful the planetary tournament, told The Hindu here.
While Heingo has recovered the going pugnacious connected the tract truthful far, helium immoderate time prefers going toe-to-toe with the crème de la crème of cricket implicit tackling committee exams. “I would decidedly take playing planetary cricket implicit clearing my last exams. I americium not truly that astute with schoolhouse work. I americium much of a sports guy.”
Not conscionable different teen
Heingo is intelligibly not conscionable different teen successful Namibia; helium is already inspiring those astir him with his meteoric emergence to the elite level.
“On the time I told my friends that I was picked for the T20 World Cup, they were truly blessed for me. For them, it was unbelievable. But for me, it was believable due to the fact that I ever believed successful myself. I really knew what was coming for me. My uncle has ever motivated maine to springiness my best, and I took that into consideration,” added Heingo.
Next connected his agenda: learning the pugnacious lessons, answering out-of-syllabus questions and passing the upcoming cricket tests with flying colours.
