Vaibhav Sooryavanshi

A senior BCCI official has hit back at critics over Sanju Samson's exclusion. The wicketkeeper batter was left out of India's squad for Zimbabwe. Samson's omission sparked immediate uproar among fans and cricket experts. He had starred as Player of the Tournament during India's T20 World Cup win. The official clarified that Samson was rested, not dropped from the team. Selectors reportedly felt he would not play a single match anyway. Carrying a senior player just to sit on the bench made little

With the T20 Indian Premier League playoffs commencing on Tuesday, veteran batting great Virat Kohli and 15-year-old prodigy Vaibhav Sooryavanshi will be under the spotlight. Kohli, the captain of Defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru who ended up topping the regular season standings, at 37 is just under two decades older than Sooryavanshi whose explosive batting has been one of the biggest stories this season. Key Playoff Matches Kohli and Bengaluru will face Gujarat Titans in the first qualifying playoff, with the winner booking

Between the buzz over IPL’s teen sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and a young Indian shuttler’s giant-killing spree at the Badminton Asian Championships, one of them has barely made a dent in cricket-crazy India. Sooryavanshi, the 15-year-old opening batsman from a nondescript town called Tajpur in Bihar, has made a mockery of the bowling reputations of Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult and Josh Hazlewood — three legends of modern fast bowlers — at this year’s ongoing Indian Premier League. But the story of upcoming Indian badminton

Fifteen-year-old Rajasthan Royals player Vaibhav Sooryavanshi went down for a golden duck in an almost certain of rare IPL failures as his side scored its heaviest loss since 2014 in the IPL, the Indian Premier League, going down by 57 runs to Sunrisers Hyderabad on Monday as two debutantes Praful Hinge and Sakib Hussain shone. The teen sensation played a critical role on Saturday in Rajasthan's four victories this season with a pair of 15-ball fifties including in the previous match. Famine was

Openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scored blistering knocks each, leading Rajasthan Royals to a comfortable 27-run win over Mumbai Indians in an IPL match here on Tuesday that was interrupted by rain. Jaiswal, who finished on 77 not out, and fellow left-hander Sooryavanshi hit a quick-fire 39 off just 14 balls to propel Rajasthan to 150-3 in the match shortened to 11 overs per side in Guwahati. Rajasthan then restricted five-time champions Mumbai to 123-9 in their 10-team pool, securing their