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Cartoons & hose hands - what makes Sooryavanshi, 15, special?
Key takeaways
- Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has the highest strike-rate (220.48) of any batter to score more than 500 T20 runs since the beginning of 2025
- After smashing so many records since breaking through as a 13-year-old, India are likely to hand a debut to Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in Friday's first T20 international against Ireland in Belfast.
- He will be 15 years and 91 days, younger even than India's most famous teenage prodigy, Sachin Tendulkar, who played a one-day international against Pakistan in 1989, aged 16 years and 205 days.
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Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has the highest strike-rate (220.48) of any batter to score more than 500 T20 runs since the beginning of 2025
They can ignore him no longer. After smashing so many records since breaking through as a 13-year-old, India are likely to hand a debut to Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in Friday's first T20 international against Ireland in Belfast.
He will be 15 years and 91 days, younger even than India's most famous teenage prodigy, Sachin Tendulkar, who played a one-day international against Pakistan in 1989, aged 16 years and 205 days.
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