Vaibhav Sooryavanshi Dilemma: Why India Needs To Rethink Their Ways With The 15-Year-Old Prodigy

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi did not play a single game in the home T20I series against Afghanistan and West Indies

With Shreyas Iyer dismissing any chances of Vaibhav Suryavanshi getting a chance in the playing XI during the five-match T20I series against New Zealand, which is starting on Thursday (October 22), India's approach to the 15-year-old prodigy will come under scrutiny, and there definitely is a need for a rethink in how things are being handled.

Since being called up to the Indian team for the first team ahead of the tour of the United Kingdom (UK), Suryavanshi has only played eight T20Is out of the 21 they have played in this period, despite being part of the squad in all assignments. The youngster has impressed in his limited chances with 246 runs in eight matches at an average of 30.75 and a strike rate of 186.36.

The teenager won the Player of the Series (POTS) award on the tour of Zimbabwe when he played all three games, but was benched for all three games of the series against Afghanistan at home and did not play any of the five games in the recently concluded series against West Indies either, despite featuring…

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