{"id":4948,"date":"2026-06-24T10:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2026-06-24T10:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:35:44","slug":"how-vaibhav-sooryavanshi-15-became-the-great-sporting-prodigy-of-this-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4948","title":{"rendered":"How Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, 15, became the great sporting prodigy of this generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4947\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5594a0350739de2db88147ec8f802caf-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5594a0350739de2db88147ec8f802caf-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5594a0350739de2db88147ec8f802caf-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5594a0350739de2db88147ec8f802caf-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5594a0350739de2db88147ec8f802caf-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5594a0350739de2db88147ec8f802caf-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>FILE &#8211; Rajasthan Royals\u2019 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi gestures as he warms up before the start of the Indian Premier League cricket match between Gujarat Titans and Rajasthan Royals in New Chandigarh, India, Friday, May 29, 2026. (AP Photo\/Ashwini Bhatia, file)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Vaibhav Sooryavanshi shifted his back foot to the side, dipped his broad shoulders, extended out his bat almost horizontally and bludgeoned the white ball out of the field, right into the facade of a packed corporate stand.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4945\">AI interests win, and lose, in one New York district<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was the shot of a veteran baseball slugger, not of a 14-year-old facing his <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/youngest-debut-ipl-suryavanashi-rajasthan-161ef49881434f396c1527629ebc16c4\">first ever ball<\/a> in the world\u2019s biggest and most-watched cricket league.<\/p>\n<p>So began the elite career of a kid who, for many, is the greatest sporting prodigy of this generation.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps any.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTruly God\u2019s gift to Indian cricket,\u201d was the description Sunil Gavaskar \u2014 a great of the sport \u2014 has given to Sooryavanshi, whose cherubic face belies the ferociousness with which he has been striking the ball in the glitzy, pressure-filled environs of the Indian Premier League over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>In his recently completed first full IPL campaign, he finished as the top run scorer, hit a record number of sixes and was voted the MVP. Among his prizes was a car, which, of course, he cannot legally drive for three years.<\/p>\n<p>Now aged 15, likened to India cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and chased by sponsors wanting a piece of cricket\u2019s \u2014 sport\u2019s? \u2014 Next Big Thing, Sooryavanshi is going international.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the left-handed opening batter will become the youngest ever player in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sooryavanshi-teenager-india-asian-games-england-4ef936075e4e280bf7f89f7f68a893e5\">India\u2019s senior men\u2019s team<\/a> \u2014 15 years, 91 days \u2014 if, as expected, he is picked for the first of two Twenty20 internationals against Ireland in Belfast.<\/p>\n<p>Then comes five T20s in England, where the glare on Sooryavanshi will be even fiercer.<\/p>\n<p>Expect him to take it all in stride.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, former England captain Michael Vaughan told the story of when he bumped into Boy Wonder ahead of an IPL match this season and told him how much he admired the way he plays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018How do you prepare for matches?\u2019\u201d Vaughan recounted on the \u201cStick to Cricket\u201d show. \u201cAnd he went, \u2018Watching cartoons.\u2019 I said, \u2018What do you eat?\u2019 He went, \u2018Everything.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s the modern player: Watch a cartoon, eat what you want, smack it out of the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sooryavanshi hails from Tajpur, a small agricultural town in the northern state of Bihar between the Ganges River and the border of Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>His father, Sanjiv, was a cricket lover and he gave his middle son of three a bat at the age of 4. By the time he was 10, Vaibhav had been making early morning trips to a Next Gen academy around 100 kilometers away and his prodigious talent was clear, especially the way he hit the ball so fiercely and cleanly and with such a high back-lift that it reminded onlookers of West Indies great Brian Lara.<\/p>\n<p>Sooryavanshi made his debut in elite senior cricket at age 12 \u2014 for Bihar in the Ranji Trophy \u2014 and, at 13, became the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ipl-auction-suryavanshi-youngster-6e4f0f8e63825d6b85cb458ce3f3a1a6\">youngest player<\/a> to get an IPL deal when Rajasthan Royals bought him for the 2025 season for $1.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>His first IPL shot \u2014 that mighty six over extra cover off India fast bowler Shardul Thakur \u2014 underlined his status as the next Tendulkar, as did a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vaibhav-suryavanshi-14-ipl-india-cricket-7eb72d22e60031ec687ae07bcfaadd3d\">35-ball century<\/a> , which was the second-fastest in IPL history, in his third match.<\/p>\n<p>A star was born.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Sooryavanshi \u2014 thick set with strong arms and a side-parting in his dark hair \u2014 and what immediately stands out is his uncanny ability to strike the ball hard and far, wherever it is bowled at him.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s down to a technique that typically sees him get back and across in his crease, dip his shoulder, deliver a high back-lift \u2014 just like Lara \u2014 at a 45-degree angle, keep his arms away from his body and, with remarkably coiled wrists, follow through with a shot generating enormous power.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4942\">Mamdani emerges as kingmaker, and other takeaways from Tuesday\u2019s primaries<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark King, a professor of sports biomechanics at Loughborough University who has worked on projects with the England and Wales Cricket Board, noted how Sooryavanshi \u201cuses his body maximally\u201d by using his core to generate hand speed and therefore speed of the bat.<\/p>\n<p>King said that from the clips he has seen, Sooryavanshi\u2019s technique evokes comparisons with Lara, another West Indies great in Viv Richards and former England captain Jos Buttler: \u201cThose really skilled people that seem to be effortless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The kid is making the world\u2019s best fast bowlers look silly, including smashing Jasprit Bumrah and Pat Cummins for six off the first delivery of their spells in the IPL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019ll wait for a ball at 90 mph,\u201d former England test captain Alastair Cook said, \u201cand then react to it and still hit it for six so cleanly. That\u2019s what\u2019s unusual about him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After being named MVP in the IPL, Sooryavanshi said in an in-house interview by Rajasthan that he wanted to play all three formats \u2014 T20, 50-over and test \u2014 for India \u201cin such a way that I should not just play but dominate for 10-20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Big words, and he\u2019s backing them up.<\/p>\n<p>In February, he helped India to the trophy in the Under-19 World Cup, smashing <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/suryavanshi-prodigy-century-cricket-india-8148b2a16ddf8d193c37d2915718aaf1\">175 off 80 balls<\/a> in the final against England \u2014 the highest individual score in any ICC global tournament final.<\/p>\n<p>Playing for India A on Sunday, he brought up a half-century in 11 balls \u2014 the fastest ever fifty in 50-over cricket, according to the BBC \u2014 in a knock of 94 off 29 balls against Sri Lanka A featuring just one dot ball.<\/p>\n<p>If he\u2019s picked against Ireland on Friday, Sooryavanshi will be the youngest player in a top-tier men\u2019s T20, breaking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/news\/youngest-player-t20i-cricket-international-debut-list\">record<\/a> of Ireland\u2019s Joshua Little (16 years, 309 days). Tendulkar was 16 years, 205 days when he made his test debut in 1989, then made his ODI debut 33 days later.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s been only one younger player than Sooryavanshi in men\u2019s international cricket and that\u2019s Hasan Raza, who was 14 years, 227 days when he made his test debut for Pakistan in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the International Cricket Council set the minimum age of 15 for players to compete internationally.<\/p>\n<p>Off the field, Sooryavanshi\u2019s age prevents him from taking up certain sponsorship opportunities, like with gambling firms, but experts still believe his marketing potential is huge. Dan Plumley, senior lecturer in sport finance at Loughborough University, pointed to the teenager being an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/complan.india\/?hl=en\">ambassador<\/a> for nutritional health drink Complan as evidence of him being able to partner with \u201cbrands aiming at a more health-conscious generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s really fascinating from a wider perspective,\u201d Plumley added, \u201cis he\u2019s got the ability to bring younger generations of people into a sport they might not necessarily have been interested in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s rare for someone to be this good at such a young age in an elite-level team sport.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pele-obituary-213a93033c7efa629dad27e27b9f67e4\">Pel\u00e9<\/a> was the star player at age 17 for Brazil in its World Cup-winning campaign in 1958, while <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/yamal-youngest-euro-7b94f25906adf08b8abb3b07c20054a7\">Lamine Yamal<\/a> starred for Spain as a 16 year old at the 2024 European Championship.<\/p>\n<p>In individual sports, Romanian gymnast <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2020-tokyo-olympics-gymnastics-olympic-games-sports-general-sports-7cb3a514f1bdbf2d7150cbd837dca692\">Nadia Com\u0103neci<\/a> was aged 14 when she became the first person in Olympic history to score a perfect 10 to win the all-around at the 1976 Montreal Games and American diver Marjorie Gestring was an Olympic gold medalist at 13.<\/p>\n<p>In tennis, Jennifer Capriati started competing in professional events at 13 and was Olympic singles champion at 16, while Martina Hingis and Monica Seles won grand slam singles titles at age 16.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4939\">After clashes, Senate Republicans prepare to talk it out with Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP cricket: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/cricket\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/cricket<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is a 15-year-old Indian taking cricket by storm as perhaps the greatest sporting prodigy of this generation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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