The big questions for most 16-year-olds are usually straightforward.
College or sixth form? Go out or stay in? Or, crucially, can you convince your parents to let you ride a moped?
Shafali Verma’s teenage years have been a little different.
The India batter has lit up the Women’s T20 World Cup with her performances at the top of the order as her side marched into the semi-finals without losing a match, before a washout meant they pipped England to a place in Sunday’s final.
Verma is the third highest run-scorer in the tournament at an astonishing strike-rate of 161. It is the highest strike-rate of players to bat more than once, while her career T20 strike-rate of 147 is the best of those to have scored more than 120 international runs.
After just 18 Twenty20 innings for India, she has hit 58 fours and 21 sixes, and is already top of the International Cricket Council’s T20 batting rankings. She is a force of nature and is putting her fellow opener, Smriti Mandhana – until recently viewed as the new face of the India women’s team – in the shade.
“When we first saw Mandhana come on to the scene, we thought we’d never see anyone hit a ball like her,” England spinner Alex Hartley told BBC Sport.
“But Verma has come along and almost made her look boring. She’s an unbelievable striker of the ball.
“I am so, so excited to see her in a couple of years, when she’s a bit fitter and a bit stronger. She is going to be a fantastic cricketer.”