15-Year-Old Vaibhav Suryavanshi Becomes Youngest Indian Cricketer Selected for National Squad

Kathmandu. Indian cricket team's 15-year-old young batter Vaibhav Suryavanshi has become the youngest player ever to be selected. At 15 years and 71 days old, Vaibhav has been included in the Indian team for the T20 series against Ireland and England to be held in June-July and the Asian Games in September. Vaibhav, who reached the final of the Under-19 World Cup held in February this year, played a spectacular innings of 175 runs off 80 balls against England.

Vaibhav has broken the records of Shafali Verma and Sachin Tendulkar on his way to being selected for the national team for the first time. Earlier, Shafali held this record at the age of 15 years and 220 days when selected, while Sachin Tendulkar was selected at the age of 16 years and 194 days among men and women cricketers. If Vaibhav gets a chance to play even a single match in the upcoming tour or the Asian Games, he will become the youngest player to debut for India, surpassing both Shafali and Sachin. However, in the context of world cricket, the records for the youngest international debut are held by Jersey's Nia Charlotte Gregg (11 years 40 days) and Romania's Marian Gherasim (14 years 16 days).