July 4 (Reuters) – Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, aged 15, became the youngest male cricketer to debut \u200cfor India after being named in the \u200cteam for their Twenty20 International match against England on Saturday, \u200bsurpassing Sachin Tendulkar.<\/p>\n
The teenager has been billed as one of the most exciting prospects in cricket since he made his Indian Premier League (IPL) debut \u200cfor Rajasthan Royals \u2060in 2025 at just 14 years old.<\/p>\n
He enhanced his reputation in this year’s \u2060IPL, finishing as the leading run-scorer for Rajasthan with 776 runs in 16 matches, and breaking \u200bChris Gayle’s \u200brecord for most \u200bsixes in a season.<\/p>\n
He \u200cwas named both the Most Valuable Player (MVP) and the Best Emerging Player in the competition, earning him a call-up to the T20I series against Ireland and England.<\/p>\n
Sooryavanshi was not given his debut \u200cagainst Ireland as India \u200bwere dealt a shock 2-0 \u200bseries defeat.<\/p>\n
Here’s a \u200blist of the youngest male cricketers \u200cto have debuted for India \u200bacross formats:<\/p>\n
Player Age Debut Format<\/p>\n
against<\/p>\n
Vaibhav 15 \u200byears, 99 days England T20I<\/p>\n
Sooryavanshi on July<\/p>\n
4, 2026<\/p>\n
Sachin Tendulkar 16 years, 205 Pakistan Test<\/p>\n
days on<\/p>\n
November<\/p>\n
15, 1989<\/p>\n
Parthiv Patel 17 years, 152 days England Test<\/p>\n
on August<\/p>\n
8, 2002<\/p>\n
Maninder \u200bSingh 17 years, \u200c193 days Pakistan Test<\/p>\n
on<\/p>\n
December<\/p>\n
23, 1982<\/p>\n
Harbhajan Singh 17 years, 265 days Australia Test<\/p>\n
on \u200bMarch<\/p>\n
25, 1998<\/p>\n
(Compiled by Rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru; \u200bEditing by Toby Chopra)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 4 (Reuters) – Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, aged 15, became the youngest male cricketer to debut \u200cfor India after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,79029,740,41286,1209,13849,44087,17065,85,24723,183793],"class_list":["post-778832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chris-gayle","tag-cricket","tag-debut","tag-india","tag-indian-premier-league","tag-rajasthan-royals","tag-sachin-tendulkar","tag-sports","tag-twenty20-international","tag-vaibhav-sooryavanshi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778832","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=778832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}