 "Vaibhav Suryavanshi compared to Sachin Tendulkar; Ajit Agarkar urged to fast-track him into Indian team: ‘He is in another zone’")
A senior Rajasthan Royals (RR) official has compared 14-year-old sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi to the great Sachin Tendulkar, imploring the Indian cricket team chief selector Ajit Agarkar to ‘immediately’ blood in the Bihar talent into the senior Indian team. Vaibhav Suryavanshi has been on a record-breaking spree ever since shining in the Indian Premier League (IPL) with RR.
After becoming the youngest at 13 to land an IPL deal with RR for a whopping Rs 1.1 crore, Suryavanshi scored the quickest IPL hundred for India in the 2025 edition, while getting ot the mark in just 35 balls against Gujarat Titans.
After the IPL, Suryavanshi scored the quickest century in youth ODIs against England at Worcester and had also smashed a 58-ball hundred in a four-day game against the Australia Under-19 team before the T20 league.
Suryavanshi is yet to play a game for the India A side, but he has been constantly travelling with the Indian U19 team.
‘Suryavanshi should be blooded into the senior team’
But Zubin Barucha, the Rajasthan Royals’ Director of High Performance, feels that he needs to be fast-tracked into the senior Indian team or at least the India A side, just like the Master Blaster Tendulkar. The former India captain Tendulkar made his debut at the age of 16 in Pakistan in 1989.
“He (Vaibhav Suryavanshi) should be blooded into the senior team immediately, like Sachin was all those years ago,” Bharucha told Times of India.
“They have to blood this guy immediately, boss, because he is in another zone only. At least send him on an India A tour. Send him to India A immediately. I’m telling you, this Australian attack that is here, bowling to India A guys, he would have got a double hundred,” he added.
Barucha also recalled how Suryavanshi once ‘smoked’ England tearaway pacer Jofra Archer in the RR nets, an indication of his unbelievable talent.
“He smoked Jofra Archer in the nets. Jofra Archer, when he bowls in the nets, he’s a demon. He never bowls a warm-up ball when the batter is there. He absolutely charges in. And actually, Jofra Archer knocked off Steve Smith’s head in a practice session we had before the Ashes. Smith was struggling against him. From that day onwards, he never went inside the net when Jofra was bowling,” said Bharucha.
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More Shorts“When he was bowling to Vaibhav, I was scared, and this boy hit one shot on the back foot, and it went out of the stadium. All the coaching staff, even Jofra, were stunned,” he added.
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