Yogesh Mhatre will have a long Friday evening ahead. While his son Ayush leads India into the Under-19 World Cup final in Zimbabwe, he’ll be navigating the delicate dance of being in two places at once—physically present at a family ceremony in Virar, mentally chained to a cricket ground 4,000 miles away. “We have a program at home, a one-time occasion—my nephew’s mundan ceremony,” Yogesh explains, his voice carrying the particular strain of competing devotions. It’s a religious ritual of shaving a child’s birth hair for the first time. “As an uncle, I have an important role to play. So one hand will be performing the rituals, the other keeping an eye on the scores. The phone will be charged and ready.” It’s the kind of juggling act that defines this moment for families across India—the collision of the sacred and the sporting, the intimate and the historic. The favourite’s burden India enters Friday’s final against England carrying the weight of expectation. It’s their sixth consecutive Under-19 World Cup final, a streak that has transformed …