‘Career will be ruined on foreign pitches…’ Why did Manjrekar warn BCCI on bringing Vaibhav Suryavanshi in Team India?

A new debate has erupted in the Indian cricket world regarding 15 year old Vaibhav Suryavanshi. Vaibhav had a tremendous performance while playing for Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2026 and scored 776 runs at an excellent strike rate of 237.31. The demand to include this young talent from Bihar, who won both the Orange Cap and MVP titles this season by hitting a record 72 sixes, in the senior Indian team for the upcoming T20 series against Ireland later this month is gaining momentum. While on one hand Vaibhav is currently a part of the India ‘A’ team on the Sri Lanka tour, on the other hand, former Indian batsman and well-known commentator Sanjay Manjrekar has given some important and concrete advice to the selectors on the idea of ​​promoting him to the senior team so soon.

Manjrekar warned BCCI

Sanjay Manjrekar believes that even though Vaibhav Suryavanshi has tremendous talent, exposing him directly to the rigors of international cricket, especially difficult foreign tours, can prove to be detrimental to his career. Speaking to Sportstar, Manjrekar said, ‘After established players like Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma in the T20 team, Vaibhav is definitely next in line. However, even if he is selected for the Indian team, I would like him to first play on Indian pitches and in conditions similar to IPL. It would not be a wise move to field them directly on foreign pitches like New Zealand, South Africa or Ireland.

Manjrekar further said that it will be a difficult decision for the selectors to decide who should be given priority between Shubhman Gill and Vaibhav Suryavanshi. Therefore he suggested that this process should be allowed to proceed naturally. Taking a dig at the inherent uncertainty of T20 cricket, he also said, ‘Things change in a matter of months; Today no one is even talking about Abhishek Sharma.

Vaibhav can play a similar role in the 2023 World Cup

Manjrekar is very impressed with Vaibhav’s ability and has even said that he can be compared with legendary captain Rohit Sharma. He said that Vaibhav is not limited to T20 only. In fact, he can prove to be a game-changer in ODI cricket also. ‘Vaibhav also plays 50-over cricket. I believe that he has tremendous ability to step up in the first 10 overs and give the same performance as Rohit Sharma gave during the 2023 ODI World Cup, perhaps even better than Rohit. Even if he wants to remain only a T20 star, there is no harm in it. But he definitely has the ability to become a player who can play in all formats.

‘Let the story progress slowly’

Ultimately, Manjrekar said that, for now, we should just enjoy the 15-year-old’s extraordinary journey and avoid drawing any hasty conclusions about his future. He insisted, ‘I can say with full confidence that he was the most dangerous batsman for any opposition team this season. Now, we will just have to wait and see how this story develops.

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