Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, 15-year-old sensation, called up to India’s T20 squad

The 15-year-old batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi ⁠has been called up for India’s upcoming Twenty20 planetary bid against Ireland and England, the country’s cricket committee (BCCI) announced connected Saturday.

Wonderkid Sooryavanshi comes into the India squad caller ⁠off a breakout campaign successful the Indian Premier League (IPL) successful which helium topped the scoring charts with 776 runs, smashing a 100 and 5 half-centuries successful 16 matches.

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The left-handed opening batter besides broke Chris Gayle’s grounds for astir sixes successful ⁠a season.

His performances for the Rajasthan Royals made him the archetypal subordinate successful IPL past to beryllium named some the Most Valuable Player (MVP) and the Best Emerging Player, with galore tipping him for a spot successful the elder Twenty20 International side.

Wonderkid Vaibhav Sooryavanshi took the IPL 2026 by tempest [Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters]

‘Game changer’

Should Sooryavanshi spell connected to marque his debut against either Ireland oregon ‌England, helium would go the youngest subordinate to correspond an Indian men’s elder team, bettering large Sachin Tendulkar, who made his debut aged 16.

“We’ve seen what helium tin do, towards playoffs, astir single-handedly carried Rajasthan Royals,” enactment sheet president Ajit Agarkar told reporters.

“Not conscionable this season, [he] had a large start, and to backmost it up successful a contention that is arsenic competitory and high-pressure, he’s a game-changer.

“We’ve got precocious hopes of him, and helium has picked himself.”

Agarkar ⁠added that Shreyas Iyer, who replaces Suryakumar Yadav arsenic the caller captain, had been appointed aft ⁠guiding Kolkata Knight Riders to the IPL rubric successful 2024.

Iyer, who past played a T20 planetary successful December 2023, besides captained Punjab Kings to a runners-up decorativeness successful 2025 and into the playoffs this year.

“Led a squad to (IPL) title, and his ain performances [have] been good. He was adjacent to being ⁠part of the World Cup squad, successful my opinion, was a ‘stand-out candidate’,” Agarkar added.

Shreyas Iyer is the caller skipper of India’s T20 planetary squad [Abhijit Addya/Reuters]

‘Best mode forward’

A mediocre tally of signifier has led to Suryakaumar losing his captaincy conscionable 3 months aft starring India to the T20 World Cup triumph connected location soil.

The 35-year-old scored conscionable 242 runs successful 9 innings astatine the T20 World Cup, with his unbeaten 84 against the United States the lone important knock.

Playing for the Mumbai Indians successful the IPL, helium managed lone 270 runs successful 13 innings astatine an mean of 20.76, arsenic his squad finished second-bottom.

“It’s a pugnacious 1 (to region Suryakumar), having conscionable won the World Cup, but arsenic it happens aft astir World Cups, you effort and reassess what your champion mode guardant is,” said Agarkar.

“We thought this was the champion mode forward.”

Suryakumar Yadav captained India to a palmy defence of the T20 World Cup, but had a mediocre idiosyncratic show astatine the tournament, which yet outgo him his captaincy and spot successful the squad [Amit Dave/Reuters]

India play Ireland successful 2 T20Is aboriginal this month, earlier a ⁠five-match bid against England successful July.

The BCCI besides named their ⁠squad for this year’s men’s cricket contention astatine the Asian Games successful Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, which includes seasoned bowler Jasprit Bumrah.

The Asian Games men’s contention volition statesman connected September 24, with the last scheduled for October 3.

T20I Squad for Ireland and England series: ‌Shreyas Iyer (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Shivam Dube, Tilak Varma, Nitish Reddy, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Varun Chakravarthy, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Prince Yadav, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi

Squad for Asian Games: Shreyas Iyer (captain), ‌Tilak ‌Varma, Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Shivam Dube, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Varun Chakravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Jasprit Bumrah, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi