Sandeep Sarkar, Kolkata: It was half past noon on Sunday. Although not overcast, it is quite sunny. Davdah with high humidity Sweat is coming out.
However, ignoring all that, cricket lovers flocked to the field. Most notably, eight to eighty, mostly wearing Rajasthan Royals jerseys. Just saying Rajasthan Royals doesn’t mean the whole thing, they are wearing number 3 jersey. A 15-year-old cricketer entered the field wearing that jersey. Which is being called the new wonder of world cricket. Vaibhav Suryavanshi.
Some came from Dakshineshwar, some from Sastipur in Bihar, the region where Vaibhav is a resident. At just 15 years of age, Vaibhav is the greatest of all time Kohli Or it could be seen with Sachin Tendulkar. And everyone is saying one thing, I want to see a deluge of four-sixes in Vaibhav’s bat. I want to make a glorious century in Eden.
According to CAB’s calculations, Eden’s attendance was 42,429 at 4:45 p.m. When Rajasthan Royals captain Ryan Parag won the toss and elected to bat at 3 o’clock on Sunday, there was a thunderous applause in the gallery. Why? A chance to see the storm at the beginning.
At exactly 3.25 minutes, when Vaibhav went to the wicket with Yasswi Jaiswal, the gallery sat tense. Yasaswi took the strike. Vaibhav’s opportunity to bat is to take singles off the first ball of Vaibhav Arora. Madness in the gallery. The first ball is quite an exceptional scene. Because, Vaibhav took the retail run. In the previous match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Praful Hinge was dismissed in the very first ball. Vaibhav is a bit cautious on Sunday.
But in the next over, he understood why there was so much fuss about him. Karthik Tyagi hits a couple of boundaries. In the fourth over KKRThis year’s best pacer Vaibhav Arora hit three fours. 25 runs off 13 balls. Stirring across Eden.
Finally, in the ninth over of the innings, Vaibhav was caught at deep mid-wicket while hitting a slog sweep to Varun Chakraborty. Just 4 runs away from the half century. Vaibhav scored 46 runs off 28 balls. current IPLIf the Hyderabad match is left out, it is as if there is a storm in the beginning. The tournament started with 52 runs off 17 balls against Chennai Super Kings. 31 off 18 balls against Gujarat Titans, 39 off 14 balls against Mumbai Indians, 78 off 26 balls against RCB – Vaibhav is a bowler’s nightmare.
Rajasthan’s top scorer on Sunday was 15-year-old Bismay Kishore. On the pitch where the entire Rajasthan batting stumbled, Vaibhav showed why his talent has mesmerized the entire cricket world.