Former England cricketer Steven Finn has said that back-of-a-length deliveries might be able to trouble the hard-hitting Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, adding that continuous variations might be the only way to get rid of the 15-year-old early in an innings.
From U19 cricket to the international stage, Sooryavanshi has dominated across levels. Any doubts over his form after lighting up last season’s Indian Premier League have been put to rest, as he has gone from strength to strength, further cementing his reputation as one of India’s brightest emerging talents.
Such has been the buzz around Suryavanshi that his continued absence from the senior national team is starting to frustrate fans, with questions being directed at BCCI. In the ongoing IPL season,
scores of 52, 31, 39, 78, and 46 have already propelled him into the top five of the Orange Cap standings, with 246 runs from just six games.
“Well, probably… pull a car for a hamstring or something. But it looks incredibly hard, doesn’t it? Even just watching the videos of him training in the nets against Jofra Archer, who is trying everything,” Finn said while speaking on For the Love of Cricket podcast.
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“Full and wide, short, full and straight… and all of them were going to the boundary. But when someone likes to play as free-flowing as he does, you would think a few in and around the tight line and the back of the length, or over the top of the stumps, try to protect the leg-side to begin with,” Finn said.
“And then if you could throw in like a full slow wide one and make him reaching for it out there on the back of three or four tight deliveries, you could catch him off guard, but at the moment it seems to be pot luck as to whether you get him or not,” Finn added.
