Duleep Trophy 2026 Live Score: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi will play for East Zone against the severely inexperienced North East Zone.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi will get a golden chance to improve upon his none too impressive First-Class numbers when East Zone take on the severely inexperienced North East Zone in the quarterfinal of the Duleep Trophy, starting at the Centre of Excellence here on Sunday.
The 15-year-old T20 sensation has only played 12 innings for Bihar in eight First-Class games with a top score of 93 and an average of 17 plus, which is nothing to write home about.
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Sooryavanshi, by and large, remains an untested commodity in the red-ball arena, but the Duleep Trophy’s whipping boys, North East, give him a chance to log some First-Class runs and gain confidence before East plays their semifinal against either Central or South Zone at the same venue from August 30.
While there are seasoned players like East skipper Ishan Kishan, seasoned pacer Mohammed Shami, former India A skipper Abhimanyu Easwaran, India A regular Kumar Kushagra, Shahbaz Ahmed, and Mukesh Kumar in its ranks, Sooryavanshi, as usual, will be the focus of attention after the zonal selection committee appointed him vice-captain.
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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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