The young prodigy is lighting up age cricket, and is soon expected to break into the senior side.
He walks out to bat, races away to his fifty, and converts that into a hundred. It is pretty much like playing a video game wherein one knows what the bowlers are going to bowl. Or not. But one still end up taking each one of them to the cleaners. Not that no one knows who we’re talking about, but for namesake – Vaibhav Suryavanshi has smashed a scintillating ton. Yes, again!
After being put in to bat in the third ODI against South Africa U19, the left-handed opener walked out like he owned the place, scripting a century in 63 deliveries. Believe it or not, that’s too slow for the Vaibhav Suryavanshi benchmark. Nonetheless, he registered a prolific 200+ run-stand with teammate Aaron George, who himself registered a huge score as well.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi got dismissed for 127 runs off 74 deliveries, leaving the team score at 227/1 in just 25.4 overs. At the time of filing this report, Aaron George was unbeaten on 99.
In the second ODI as well, Suryavanshi smashed a quickfire 68 to send the bowlers into a frenzy. The left-handed opener will be one of the most crucial players for the Indian side when they head to Zimbabwe for the U19 World Cup starting January 15.
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The 14-year-old Rajasthan Royals star has time and again proven that he is too good for the U19 level. Vaibhav Suryavanshi has been scoring runs at the U19 level for fun, and has been one of India’s top scorers in his age category.
That being said, many experts have voiced their opinions stating the need to push the youngster towards the senior side as soon as possible. With the kind of game he is showcasing, Suryavanshi is being received as one of the generational talents to have taken up the game.
But the challenges ahead won’t be very easy for the 14-year-old. As the level of cricket grows, Vaibhav Suryavanshi will have to keep up to the pace of the game and invent new techniques to his batting, which is one-paced at the moment. All of his runs have come at a superb speed, which is great for the white-ball game.
However, Suryavanshi will be certainly tested at the top-most level by bowlers of the highest quality. In just 18 YODIs, the youngster has slammed three hundreds and four fifties, scoring 973 runs at a strike-rate of 164.08. His strike-rate in T20s reads 204.37, which is extremely good for an opener.
It would be interesting to see how Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s career graph moves from here on. But whatever said and done, he would be looking ahead towards the U19 World Cup which starts in a few days time. Ayush Mhatre will be joining the side as the captain for the coveted tournament, and is another youngster to look out for.
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