{"id":633627,"date":"2026-04-27T07:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/633627\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T07:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:38:10","slug":"send-him-to-a-lab-vaibhav-sooryavanshi-accused-of-using-ai-chip-in-his-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/633627\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Send him to a lab\u2019: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi accused of using \u2018AI chip\u2019 in his bat"},"content":{"rendered":"

With rising success, there comes criticism. But it\u2019s one thing to be sceptical of a person\u2019s failures, and another to deliberately pinpoint flaws, which is what Pakistan\u2019s cricket expert Nauman Niaz has done. Known for his controversial and over-the-top remarks, Niaz has now pointed the gun towards Indian cricket\u2019s fastest rising batting sensation, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi<\/a>. Hours after the 15-year-old bludgeoned the second Indian Premier League<\/a> (IPL) century of his career, Niaz accused Sooryavanshi of foul play, suggesting the youngster uses an AI chip in his bat to generate power.<\/p>\n

\"AA Pakistan cricket expert is trying to pull Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (PTI)<\/p>\n

\u201cThink about it. What is this kid? Get his bat checked. Like WADA conducts dope tests, send him to a lab. He probably used an AI chip in his bat. He is unreal. What a player. I did get a feeling he was playing a tad slow. This made me think, what is this guy? When you\u2019re 18, your body builds muscle, biceps, and triceps. This one is just 16. He was born when Virat Kohli was a world champion. He doesn\u2019t have the power game as much as he has technique. He is a wristy player, plus, if you look at this arc, he used the full 360 degree,\u201d Niaz said on a show called \u2018SmashHit\u2019.<\/p>\n

Also Read: BCCI told to delay Vaibhav Sooryavanshi\u2019s India debut, follow Brian Lara blueprint for long-term dividend<\/a><\/p>\n

If there\u2019s one thing Sooryavanshi is not, it\u2019s a violator of the rules. At just 15, he has captured the imagination of world cricket, racking up one batting record after another. He was on the verge of registering the fastest-ever IPL hundred \u2013 78 off 26 \u2013 against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru, only to miss it by a whisker. However, that didn\u2019t impact his determination, as after two low scores of 0 and 8, along with a 46 in between, Sooryavanshi completed his century off 37 balls against the Sunrisers Hyderabad on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Sooryavanshi for Orange Cap<\/p>\n

Sooryavanshi is giving top guns such as KL Rahul, Virat Kohli and Abhishek Sharma. With 357 runs from eight matches, Sooryavanshi is currently placed second with two fifties and a hundred, followed by Rahul at third, Heinrich Klaasen at fourth, Shubman Gill at fifth and Kohli at sixth. The race for the Orange Cap has been dominated by Indians, with Klaasen the only overseas player presently in the top 10.<\/p>\n

In just about a year, Sooryavanshi has achieved more than any budding Indian talent has in recent memory. Sooryavanshi has become the toast of the nation, scoring centuries in England, Australia, South Africa and winning the Under-19 World Cup in January this year. An India call-up is all that\u2019s left, and the way he\u2019s progressing, watch out for June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With rising success, there comes criticism. But it\u2019s one thing to be sceptical of a person\u2019s failures, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[95158,64,63,740,13848,31775,85,183793],"class_list":["post-633627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-ai-chip","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-ipl","tag-ipl-2026","tag-sports","tag-vaibhav-sooryavanshi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}