Vaibhav Sooryavanshi Earns Huge Praise: "Even My Wife Is Watching Duleep Trophy Because Of Him"

File photograph of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.© BCCI

Former India opener Krishnamachari Srikkanth heaped reward on 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. The wonderkid has impressed and surprised the complete cricket fraternity together with his unbelievable batting abilities. Whereas lauding {the teenager}, Srikkanth revealed that even his spouse is watching the Duleep Trophy, India’s home first-class cricket competitors, due to Sooryavanshi. Enjoying for East Zone, the southpaw scored solely 8 runs within the quarter-final match in opposition to North East Zone earlier than bouncing again with scores of 92 and 40 within the semi-final in opposition to Central Zone.

“He is enjoying outstandingly effectively. He should be inspired and by no means be discouraged. If he is molded correctly, he’ll be a celebrity within the making. He’ll convey Take a look at cricket again to its glory. Everybody watched the Duleep Trophy due to him. Even my spouse is watching due to him. He’ll be a giant asset going ahead for world cricket,” Srikkanth mentioned in a video on his YouTube channel.

Sooryavanshi, who’s simply 15, has already damaged a number of data, be it within the Indian Premier League, on the worldwide stage or in Below-19 cricket. Carrying on his terrific run, he additionally created historical past within the Duleep Trophy by changing into the youngest participant to attain a half-century within the match’s historical past.

On the age of 15 years and 157 days, Sooryavanshi reached the milestone in simply 42 balls, smashing a six off off-spinner Saransh Jain to finish his fifty and break a 57-year-old file throughout East Zone’s first innings.

The earlier file was held by Laxman Singh, who scored a Duleep Trophy half-century on the age of 16 years and 23 days within the 1969 version.

Talking additional about Sooryavanshi, Srikkanth mentioned, “He performed extremely effectively. How can folks even doubt whether or not this boy on whether or not he’s able to enjoying higher-level cricket? He can play each stage of cricket, and he’s going to rule world cricket shortly in all codecs. He is smashing medium pacers with no worries for straight sixes in red-ball cricket. He is toying with the bowlers.”