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Vaibhav Sooryavanshi loved bowling within the Duleep Trophy quarterfinal.
Ishan Kishan (left) and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi have a good time after the autumn of a wicket. (Screengrab/X/BCCI)
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is used to creating headlines with the bat. However throughout East Zone’s Duleep Trophy quarter-final conflict in opposition to North East Zone in Bengaluru, the teenage sensation confirmed that there’s one other dimension to his sport.
Primarily a hard-hitting top-order batter, Sooryavanshi additionally enjoys bowling his left-arm spin and is uber-confident of his wicket-taking skills.
Why else would East Zone captain Ishan Kishan throw the ball to the 16-year-old once they have been in hunt for wickets?
“Wicket nahi gir raha tha opponent crew ka toh mujhe bola gaya 2-3 over daalne ko. Ishan bhaiya ko aisa laga ki woh danger leke bowling de rahe hain. However unko nahi pata tha ki essential wicket taker hoon (The wickets weren’t coming, so I used to be requested to bowl 2-3 overs. I feel Ishan felt like he was taking a danger by giving me the ball. However he didn’t know that I’m a wicket-taker.),” Sooryavanshi mentioned in a video shared by BCCI.
“I knew that even when I took 5 wickets, I used to be solely going to get three overs to bowl. So I simply needed to profit from these three overs, bowl in addition to I may, and end my spell strongly,” he added.
It was a ‘danger’ that paid off.
Having been dismissed for simply eight off six balls, Sooryavanshi left an impression along with his bowling when North East Zone have been 75/5 of their second innings. The left-arm spinner wanted solely 4 deliveries to make his mark, dismissing Kishan Lyngdoh for 25 and Imliwati Lemtur for four.
The double strike lowered North East Zone to 79/7 and helped East Zone tighten their grip on the competition.
Sooryavanshi finally completed with spectacular figures of two/11 from three overs.
“If you happen to ask batters, they’ll inform you they get pleasure from bowling, identical to a bowler enjoys batting. A batter bowling and a bowler batting – each get equally enthusiastic about it,” he mentioned.
East Zone went on to dominate the quarter-final, posting 467 of their first innings earlier than bowling North East Zone out for 111. After the follow-on, North East Zone have been dismissed for 146, handing East Zone a commanding innings-and-210-run victory.
For Sooryavanshi, the spell provided was an opportunity to make a contribution after falling cheaply.
“It was numerous enjoyable as a result of my batting didn’t go that properly within the match, however contributing to the crew with the ball was actually satisfying. It’s at all times extra enjoyable when a batter takes wickets,” he concluded.
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August 29, 2026, 12:57 IST
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