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Vaibhav Sooryavanshi showcased his astonishing endowment and big-match temperament with a 29-ball 94, laying the instauration for India A’s lopsided 66-run implicit Sri Lanka A successful the tri-series last connected Sunday (June 21, 2026).
Sooryavanshi’s romp, which besides contained an 11-ball 50, the fastest successful List A cricket, guided India A to a monolithic 377 for nine.
Sri Lanka A mustered 311 each retired successful reply arsenic pacer Yash Thakur (3/45) and spinner Vipraj Nigam (3/60) inflicted timely blows.
If the hosts had to get person to that improbable target, they needed a bully commencement and accordant partnerships.
They did not person either of them. Their apical 3 — Niroshan Dickwella, Avishka Fernando and Nuwanidu Fernando — returned to the hut with conscionable 75 connected committee wrong the archetypal 10 overs.
Two of the astir productive partnerships successful their innings was a 53 betwixt Sadeera Samarawickrama (52) and skipper Sahan Arachchige (38) for the 4th wicket, and past a 77 betwixt Wanuj Sahan (62) and Vijayakanth Viyaskanth (39) for the seventh wicket.
Those numbers were vastly insufficient successful a pursuit that demanded a scoring complaint successful excess of 8 constantly, and were bully capable lone to hold the inevitable and assistance SL to transverse the 300-run mark.
Earlier, Sooryavanshi’s blitz excessively had an aerial of inevitability to it, arsenic helium shrugged disconnected a thin tally successful this tourney with emblematic gusto.
Asked to bat, India A looked acceptable for a people successful excess of 400 riding connected Sooryavanshi's bonzer blitz earlier SL clawed their mode back.
Skipper Tilak Varma steadied the innings with a composed 67 disconnected 90 balls, portion Anukul Roy (39 disconnected 15 ) and Vipraj Nigam (27 disconnected 20) produced a precocious burst to assistance India beyond 350.
The day, however, belonged to Sooryavanshi.
The 15-year-old from Bihar's Samastipur needed conscionable 11 deliveries to scope his half-century, eclipsing the 21-year-old grounds held by Lankan Kaushalya Weeraratne, who had taken 12 balls to get to the milestone successful 2005.
Having endured a quiescent clip truthful acold the series, Sooryavanshi walked retired with wide intent and unleashed implicit carnage.
His archetypal 11 deliveries yielded 50 runs, speechmaking 4, 4, 4, 6, 6, 0, 6, 4, 4, 6, 6, arsenic helium dismantled the Sri Lankan onslaught from the outset.
He reached the landmark with 5 sixes and arsenic galore boundaries, bringing up the grounds with successive sixes consecutive down the crushed disconnected pacer Dulaj Samuditha.
The left-hander combined brute unit with exceptional timing. He initially targeted the limb broadside against the seamers earlier effortlessly opening up the disconnected broadside erstwhile Sri Lanka A stationed an further fielder connected the connected side.
Sooryavanshi’s quality to dispatch adjacent bully deliveries implicit the ropes erstwhile again stood out.
The item of the innings was his lofted shots implicit other cover.
Three effortless sixes successful that portion showcased the bat speed, equilibrium and fearlessness that person made him 1 of India's astir breathtaking young talents.
Alongside Priyansh Arya (39), Sooryavanshi added 132 runs for the opening wicket and looked good connected people to registry the fastest period successful List A cricket.
However, spinner Arachchige ended the fireworks by having him caught astatine mid-off successful the ninth over. Arya followed an implicit aboriginal arsenic Sri Lanka clawed their mode backmost into the contest.
Ruturaj Gaikwad (40) and Tilak past added 63 runs for the 3rd wicket, but the travel of boundaries dried up considerably.
As India attempted to accelerate successful the closing stages, wickets fell astatine regular intervals, but Nigam and Anukul provided the last flourish.
