Meet 13-year-old Bihar cricketer, who broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record, now nearing another milestone in India colours
Vaibhav Suryavanshi has played two first-class matches for Bihar so far and had already became the youngest Indian to make Ranji Trophy debut at 12 years.
New Delhi: Vaibhav Suryavanshi had already been a superstar when he broke Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh’s record of youngest-ever debutant in the Ranji Trophy. He was 12 years old then. On Monday, the Bihar cricketer etched his name in the history books again by turning into the youngest half-centurion in the U-19 stage at 13 years and 187 days when the left-hander hit an unbeaten 81 off just forty seven balls against a touring Australia A side in the ongoing first Youth Test on the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
Having decimated Australia three-zero in the youth ODI series last month, the Indians were the clear favourites going into the unofficial Test match. Batting first, Australia U-19 were six wickets down at 152 before a 98-run stand for the seventh wicket between Christian Howe (forty eight) and Aidan O Connor (Sixty one) pulled the visitors up.
For India, Samarth Nagraj and Mohammed Ennan took three wickets each and each while Aditya Rawat two wickets. In reply, India were 103 without loss in 14 overs, due to a whirlwind half-century by Suryavanshi. Vihaan Malhotra is accompanying Suryavanshi with an unbeaten 21 on the opposite end.
If Suryavanshi manages to score 19 runs more on the 2d day on Tuesday, he's going to change into the youngest ever to score a century for India U-19 side. But it's now not the first time he is playing for an age-group Indian team. Last year, Suryavanshi was element of the India B U-19 side who were element of the Quadrangular Under-19 Series held at home.
Suryavanshi scored 177 runs in six matches in the Quadrangular Under-19 Series including two fifty-plus scores (one each and each against Bangladesh U-19 and England U-19). Post that outing, he made his debut for Bihar in the Ranji Trophy. While he scored 19 and 12 on his debut against Mumbai, Suryavanshi couldn’t open his account in both innings against Chhattisgarh.
On the opposite hand, there's still some confusion regarding Suryavanshi actual age. In one among his interviews in 2023, Suryavanshi stated that he would turn 14 on September 27 last year. If that’s the case, then he can be 15 by now. But, his date of birth is listed on March 27, 2011 with BCCI, thus making him a 13-year-old.
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