India wonderkid Vaibhav Sooryavanshi struck a brilliant 93 off 38 balls as Rajasthan Royals beat Lucknow Super Giants to boost their chances of reaching the Indian Premier League play-offs.<\/p>\n
The 15-year-old hit 10 sixes in another staggering innings with which he moved back to the top of the tournament’s run-scoring charts. Of Sooryavanshi’s 93 runs, 88 came from boundaries as he dominated the already-eliminated Super Giants.<\/p>\n
He looked certain to score his second century of the campaign, only to mistime a shot off Mohsin Khan to Abdul Samad in the deep.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, India selector Ajit Agarkar had spoken about Sooryavanshi’s omission from the national team’s one-day squad to face Afghanistan next month.<\/p>\n
There have been growing calls for the teenager to be called up to the India white-ball sides but he has instead been named in an India A squad to tour Sri Lanka after the IPL finishes.<\/p>\n
“We picked him for the India A team because he is young and immensely promising,” said Agarkar.<\/p>\n
“The idea is to give these youngsters exposure. Yashasvi Jaiswal is already part of the ODI set-up as well. As impressive as Sooryavanshi has been, there are others who have performed strongly too.<\/p>\n
“We are very excited about him and hopefully he can showcase his talent when he travels with the A team.”<\/p>\n
The Royals slowed down once Sooryavanshi fell but Dhruv Jurel (53* off 38) ensured a victory that moves them into fourth in the table. It means a win against Mumbai Indians in their final match will seal a spot in the knockouts.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Mitchell Marsh crunched 96 off 57 balls to continue his good form for Super Giants, putting on 109 for the first wicket with fellow Australian Josh Inglis (60 off 29).<\/p>\n
England’s Jofra Archer was the pick of the hosts’ bowlers with 1-39, while he also ran out Rishabh Pant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India wonderkid Vaibhav Sooryavanshi struck a brilliant 93 off 38 balls as Rajasthan Royals beat Lucknow Super Giants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-593036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}