Sooryavanshi sets record for youngest India player in international match

Fifteen-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi became the youngest debutant for India successful a T20 nonaccomplishment to England astatine Old Trafford.

Jacob Bethell helped England spoil the planetary debut of teenage India sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi connected Saturday, with a four-wicket triumph successful the 2nd Twenty20 successful Manchester.

At property 15 years and 99 days, Sooryavanshi usurped Sachin Tendulkar arsenic his country’s youngest men’s subordinate and marked the record-breaking juncture with 2 blistering sixes arsenic helium scored 14 from 10 balls.

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But it was Bethell, a comparative seasoned astatine 22, who made the match-winning publication astatine Old Trafford.

With England chasing 191 for victory, helium came to the crease astatine 51-3 and produced a perfectly paced 76 not retired to transportation the hosts to a 1-0 pb successful the five-match series.

Bethell deed the fastener successful a game-changing 17th over, smashing 2 escaped hits for six aft backfoot no-balls from Ravi Bishnoi, who leaked 29 to enactment England successful control.

Bethell deed 5 fours and 5 sixes successful his 46-ball stay, finishing the crippled alongside Jofra Archer arsenic England nailed a four-wicket triumph with an implicit to spare.

Sooryavanshi hits a six disconnected the bowling of England’s Jofra Archer during the 2nd T20 planetary cricket lucifer betwixt England and India astatine Old Trafford successful Manchester, England connected July 4, 2026 [Oli Scarff/AFP]

Opening the batting successful spot of Sanju Samson, Sooryavanshi walked retired successful beforehand of a bulk Indian assemblage successful Manchester and a primetime evening tv assemblage successful Mumbai.

His archetypal hostile was different T20 debutant, Josh Tongue, 13 years older but with 13 less T20 appearances. Sooryavanshi missed his archetypal 2 balls and got disconnected the people with a sketchy wrong borderline that pinged past his disconnected stump.

That brought him up against his Rajasthan Royals teammate Archer, and helium duly announced himself by stooping debased to nonstop a singular changeable spiraling precocious implicit his near enarthrosis for six. He was astatine it again disconnected his seventh delivery, launching Tongue into the stands implicit wide long-on.

With nary existent rotation connected connection and the tract up, Will Jacks got the amended of the youngster. Charging down the track, Sooryavanshi mislaid his equilibrium arsenic helium tried to a nine a flat, leg-stump transportation disconnected his pads to permission Jos Buttler a elemental stumping.

While the Sooryavanshi amusement played out, Abhishek Sharma was engaged hammering the lion’s stock of a 50-run stand. In a adjacent replay of the erstwhile lucifer successful Durham, Sharma was opening to look untouchable erstwhile the instauration of Sam Curran forced the error, albeit with a debased afloat flip that was pumped consecutive to heavy midwicket to chopped Sharma abbreviated connected 43.

Curran picked up 2 much wickets, the unsafe Ishan Kishan for 49 and Shivam Dube for 5, and could person improved connected figures of 3-33 had Archer’s attempted drawback disconnected Tilak Verma not been ruled out.

England’s innings came unstuck immediately, Arshdeep Singh getting openers Phil Salt and Jos Buttler caught for ducks successful the archetypal implicit of the chase.

Harry Brook embarked connected a convulsive counterattack worthy 39 successful 15 balls. His salvo included 4 fours and 3 almighty sixes successful a enactment arsenic helium brought Singh backmost to world with a bump.

Needing 49 from 24 balls arsenic the endgame loomed, England was inactive 2nd favourite until Bishnoi fell isolated and Bethell cashed successful ruthlessly successful the 17th.