'Research' key to slowing down Sooryavanshi & India
A huge couple of days for Irish cricket beckon as India arrive at Stormont for two T20 internationals on Friday and Sunday [both 13:30 BST]
A huge couple of days for Irish cricket beckon as India arrive at Stormont for two T20 internationals on Friday and Sunday [both 13:30 BST]. The world champions will face an Ireland side hit by injuries as Josh Little, Mark Adair, Paul Stirling, Curtis Campher, Barry McCarthy and Jordan Neill miss out.
Matthew Hollard and Jai Moondra have received their first Ireland call-ups and Reuben Wilson is included in the T20I squad for the first time after making his debut in the recent Test match against New Zealand. However, it's the likelihood of an Indian debutant which is capturing the imagination, as 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi looks set to make his international bow.
Nicknamed 'Baby Boss', Sooryavanshi will break Sachin Tendulkar's record for the youngest debutant for India and will also become the youngest ever player to make a debut in an international T20 among ICC full member countries
if he features at Stormont. The teenager earned his call-up following a remarkable campaign with Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League [IPL], hitting 776 runs and an all-time record 65 sixes in a single season.
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