India’s rising sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi has produced yet another sparkling innings in Brisbane, smashing a whirlwind hundred against Australia U19 in the first Youth Test of the two-match series. His knock put India U19 in the driver’s seat as the visitors continued their domination on the tour, having already swept the YODI series 3-0.
The southpaw opened the innings alongside captain Ayush Mhatre after Australia U19 posted 243 runs in the first innings. The duo provided India a blistering start, racing to 47 runs within five overs. While Mhatre succumbed early for a quickfire 21 off 15 balls, No. 3 batter Vihaan Malhotra managed only six runs, but that didn’t affect Vaibhav.
The 14-year-old piled on the misery for the Australia bowling attack, keeping India’s run rate well over six runs per over and pushing the scoreboard along with authority. The left-hand batter raced to his fifty off just 37 balls, reaching the feat in style with a humongous six off India-origin cricketer Aryan Sharma. Vaibhav then shifted gears with his partner, Vedant Trivedi, and started playing his shots.
It took 41 more deliveries to convert his fifty into a century, reaching the milestone with a boundary to Aryan to achieve a milestone. He departed soon after a century. The Rajasthan Royals batter scored 113 runs in just 86 deliveries, including nine boundaries and eight maximums, at a strike rate of 131.40. In the process, Suryavanshi had forged a 152-run partnership off just 134 balls for the third wicket with Trivedi.
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His 78-ball hundred against Australia is now the fourth fastest recorded in Youth Test history. With this ton, Vaibhav has now equalled Brendon McCullum by becoming only the second batter to have multiple Youth Test centuries inside 100 balls. Both of his centuries have come in fewer than 100 deliveries, with the first one coming off just 58 balls against the same opposition in Chennai last year.
India U19 have already taken a 13-run first-innings lead (at the time of writing this article), courtesy of Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s blistering knock and a fifty from Vedant Trivedi.
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