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Dravid urges patience for 15-year-old Sooryavanshi’s Test push
Former India head coach Rahul Dravid has said 15-year-old batting prodigy Vaibhav Sooryavanshi needs a couple of seasons of red-ball cricket before he can be considered for the Test team. Dravid told…
Former India head coach Rahul Dravid has said 15-year-old batting prodigy Vaibhav Sooryavanshi needs a couple of seasons of red-ball cricket before he can be considered for the Test team. Dravid told JioStar that Sooryavanshi has the skill to hold his own in Tests but that fitting in domestic red-ball matches around his white-ball national duties will be tricky.
Sooryavanshi became India's youngest international cricketer when he made his T20I debut at 15 years and 99 days against England. He has scored 1,670 runs in 40 T20 innings at a strike rate of 216.32 and was Player of the Series in Zimbabwe. However, his first-class record is modest: 215 runs in 13 innings at an average of 16.54, with one fifty.
Indian Opinion Analysis
Sooryavanshi's case mirrors the classic dilemma Indian cricket faces with prodigiously talented youngsters who burst onto the white-ball scene early. The BCCI's domestic red-ball calendar, including the Ranji Trophy, runs roughly from December to March, overlapping with India's bilateral white-ball series and IPL commitments. The selectors and team management now face a scheduling puzzle: whether to rest Sooryavanshi from some white-ball assignments to let him play a full Ranji season, or risk his Test development stalling. The next domestic season begins in October 2025, and how many red-ball matches he gets before the next Test cycle will be the real measure of progress.
Source: rediff.com
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