Vaibhav Suryavanshi's parents told AFP how they made a practice pitch in their village in India's poorest state to spark the teenage cricket prodigy's stunning rise -- and now his younger brother hones his skills on it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Suryavanshi was the talk of world cricket after making history in the Indian Premier League last year aged just 14 in a dazzling debut season.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The supremely talented left-handed batsman, who turned 15 on Friday, belted a six on the first ball he faced for Rajasthan Royals.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Days later the school boy smacked a 35-ball century, the second fastest in the T20 competition's history after Chris Gayle (30 balls).<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"He is fearless," Manish Ojha, one of Suryavanshi's first coaches, told AFP ahead of the new IPL season starting on Saturday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"That is his nature."<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Suryavanshi's stunning introduction to elite cricket was no flash in the pan.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
He then hammered 175 off just 80 balls -- an innings laced with a staggering 30 boundaries -- in February, helping India thump England by 100 runs in the Under-19 ODI World Cup final in Harare.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
He was named player of the match and player of the tournament, having finished with 439 runs in seven innings at an average of 62.71.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The teenager's rise has been swift since first picking up a bat when he was barely five.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
He made his domestic debut aged 12 for his home state of Bihar in the Ranji Trophy in January 2024, then was selected for India's under-19 squad against a touring Australia team.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
He promptly hit a 58-ball century, the second-fastest ton in youth Tests after England's Moeen Ali in 2005.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Ojha praised Suryavanshi's ability to replicate what he learned in the nets, including the one his parents had put together, in the heat of competition.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"What makes him special is the ability to execute plans on match days," said Ojha.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
- 'Cricket is his life' -<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n Suryavanshi's blistering march to teenage superstardom from India's poorest state has involved significant sacrifice from his middle-class parents.<\/p>\r\n\r\n For years his father accompanied him every other day from their home in the village of Motipur to Ojha's cricket academy in Bihar's capital city, Patna, a one-way journey of roughly two-and-a-half hours.<\/p>\r\n\r\n "My small business failed because of my full-time focus on training Vaibhav," Sanjeev Suryavanshi told AFP outside the family's two-storey house.<\/p>\r\n\r\n For his mother it involved getting up before everyone.<\/p>\r\n\r\n "It was not easy to wake up at 3:00 am to cook for him so that he could take homemade food with him," said Aarti Singh.<\/p>\r\n\r\n The sacrifices paid off when a 13-year-old Suryavanshi in 2024 became the youngest-ever player to be sold in an IPL auction.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Rajasthan Royals snapped him up for $130,500 -- more than a hundred times the average per capita annual income in Bihar.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Born on March 27, 2011, Suryavanshi is the first IPL cricketer born after the tournament's inception in 2008.<\/p>\r\n\r\n In a Rajasthan Royals media interaction earlier this month, Suryavanshi cheekily said he hoped to score "two-three thousand runs" in this year's tournament, before playing down "personal goals".<\/p>\r\n\r\n "The idea is to follow the process and help the team win," said Suryavanshi, whose media duties are limited by the team to protect him.<\/p>\r\n\r\n Back home in Motipur, father Sanjeev said the family is now eagerly waiting for Suryavanshi to don senior India colours.<\/p>\r\n\r\n "He has been playing extraordinary cricket so far," a proud Sanjeev said, as he watched his youngest son Ashirwad, 11, practise on the same modest pitch he had built near their home.<\/p>\r\n\r\n "Cricket is Vaibhav's life, dream and faith."Also Read: <\/b> Live Cricket Score<\/a><\/h5>
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