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For the duration of IPL 2026, Kumar Sangakkara, who fulfilled the dual work of caput manager and Director of Cricket for Rajasthan Royals, had a ringside presumption of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s game. Having observed the 15-year-old marque different elephantine leap aft the committedness of his debut run successful 2025, the erstwhile Sri Lanka skipper said Sooryavanshi was “more than ready” for an India call-up.
The cherubic southpaw’s adjacent duty is simply a 50-over tri-series for India-A successful Sri Lanka from June 9 to 21. Once that concludes, determination is an irresistible lawsuit for the teen to beryllium handed a elder T20I call-up. India has 2 T20Is against Ireland successful Belfast connected June 26 and 28, followed by a five-match bid versus England from July 1 to 11.
“Yeah, I mean, you ne'er cognize if anyone’s acceptable until they play. But with everything Vaibhav has shown against immoderate of the champion bowlers successful the world, I deliberation he’s much than acceptable to instrumentality connected immoderate situation you propulsion astatine him. And I’m definite that he’ll get that call-up very, precise soon. He’s batted with a batch of maturity,” Sangakkara told reporters aft RR’s decision to Gujarat Titans successful Qualifier 2.
Sooryavanshi’s 2nd IPL play ended with a mind-boggling tally of 776 runs. On Friday (May 29, 2026), the Titans onslaught came up with a concerted short-ball ploy led by the brace of Mohammed Siraj and Kagiso Rabada, but the youngster showed substance on with benignant successful an innings of 96 disconnected 47 balls.
“It was a overmuch tougher innings with wickets falling astir him. He reads the crippled truly well, and he’s got nary fear,” Sangakkara noted.
