Duleep Trophy 2026 Live Score: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi will play for East Zone against the severely inexperienced North East Zone.

Sudip Gharami scored 146 while Shahbaz Ahmed is still batting unbeaten on 100 to guide East Zone to 355/6 at stumps on day 1 of their Duleep Trophy clash against North East Zone. Gharami was batting on 139 while Shahbaz Ahmed was on 45 not out at Tea having batted through the entire second session of the first day to take East Zone to 270-5 at Tea. East Zone had reached 138/5 at lunch with captain Ishan Kishan departing for four off nine balls. East Zone had lost openers Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Abhimanyu Easwaran with just 25 runs on board. Teenage phenom Sooryavanshi had the chance to enhance his First-Class credentials at the Centre of Excellence, but managed to score just eight runs after facing six balls. Before today’s game, the 15-year-old T20 sensation had played 12 innings for Bihar over eight First-Class games. In these games he had top-scored with 93 and has an average of 17+, which pales in comparison to his T20 stats.

In the other Duleep Trophy quarter-final, North Zone were batting on 114/2 in 32.0 overs at lunch, with Ayush Doseja on 27 and Ayush Badoni on 50.

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For Sooryavanshi, an untested commodity in the red-ball arena, the Duleep Trophy game against North East Zone is an opportunity to get his eye in for some First-Class cricket before he faces the more established teams like Central or South Zone at the same venue from August 30. The selectors have also raised the stakes by entrusting the young Sooryavanshi with vice-captaincy of the team.

(With inputs from PTI)

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Vaibhav Sooryavanshi returns to the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence (CoE), the place where his destiny changed.

During the 2024 off-season, the junior selection panel, then headed by Tilak Naidu were short-listing players for a camp with an eye on the 2026 Under-19 World Cup. Naidu & his team were in two minds, given that Sooryavanshi was just 13 years old. But BCCI’s head of cricket VVS Laxman gave his approval. Sooryavanshi would join the camp and by September that year would hit a century in a Youth Test against Australia in Chennai.

It is exactly two years since Sooryavanshi turned up for that camp at the CoE. On Sunday when he walks out for East Zone in the first round fixture of the Duleep Trophy against North East Zone, he will do so as a completely different player. He has won the Under-19 World Cup. Has set the IPL stage on fire in successive seasons. He is already the youngest ever Indian to make an international T20 debut. In the IPL, there is no reputed bowler he hasn’t taken down.

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