By Jeet Banerjee
New Delhi: Vaibhav Suryavanshi is also in top shape with India U19 busy playing an ODI series against the hosts England U19 players. Having broken the quickfire-knock of 48 and 45 in the respective first and second game Suryavanshi rose to the occasion against the third ODI game at Northampton with a scorching 86 runs off 31 balls.
He brought up his half-century in the 20 th delivery becoming the second-fastest Indian U-19 batsman to achieve this feat. It remains the record of Rishabh Pant who scored a fifty of 18 balls against Nepal in 2016. Vaibhav Suryavanshis innings included nine sixes and six fours.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi smashes back to back sixes! 🥶🔥 pic.twitter.com/lyIURNP84q
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Suryavansis strong performance
Suryavanshi who narrowly missed fifties in his last two games as he was dismissed in the 40s made the breakthrough performance to the game and scored a career-defining knock. He ripped apart the England bowling attack scoring 86 of only 31 balls as India won the game with 4 wickets and 34.3 overs in hand chasing the target of 268/6. His explosive knocks comprised of six boundaries and nine humongous sixes the second most sixes in an U-19 ODI by an Indian batter beating the previous record of eight sixes set by Mandeep Singh.
India experienced a hiccup in the middle overs as they collapsed to 199/ 6 by the 24 th over. But a late unbeaten cameo of 43 runs off 42 balls by bowling all-rounder Kanishk Chouhan who had already taken 3 wickets at the cost of 30 runs turned it around on its head. He together with RS Ambrish all 31 not out) put on a match-winning 75-run partnership to get India over the line.
Suryavanshi shredded all bowlers that faced him and his motive could not have been clearer. He dominated initially blasted right-arm pacer Sebastian Morgan with two sixes in the third over.