Desk. The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2026-27 season has started from November 14, in which the young opening batsman Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who is captaining the Bihar team for the first time, took the field for the toss against Saurashtra and made a big world record in his name in T20 cricket. Vaibhav Suryavanshi has now become the youngest player to captain in the T20 format in world cricket, shattering the record of Croatia's Jack Vukusic. However, as captain, Vaibhav Suryavanshi's match with the bat was not special in which he returned to the pavilion after scoring 18 runs in 12 balls.
When Bihar's squad was announced for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2026-27 tournament, he surprised everyone by taking a big decision of handing over the captaincy to Vaibhav Suryavanshi. Vaibhav Suryavanshi made his debut as captain at the age of 15 years and 232 days, breaking the record of Croatia's Jack Vukusic, who took over the responsibility of captaincy for the first time in the T20 format against Cyprus last year at the age of 17 years and 311 days. In such a situation, now Vaibhav has succeeded in shattering this record and making it his name. Whereas in Indian domestic cricket, before Vaibhav in the T20 format, the record of youngest captaincy was in the name of Mahipal Lomror, who took over the responsibility of captaincy for Rajasthan in the 2018 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy at the age of 18 years and 67 days.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi has been given the responsibility of captaincy in only one match, in which according to the report of Cricbuzz, Chief Selector of Bihar Cricket Association Harvinder Singh has also confirmed that Vaibhav was available to captain the team only in the first match, hence he was given this responsibility. After his departure, vice-captain Suraj Kashyap will take command of the team. Actually, Vaibhav will be able to play only the first match, because after this he will leave for Qatar to play the Emerging Asia Cup on behalf of India 'A' team.