London, May 13 -- Former South African cricketer AB De Villiers said playing ODI and Test cricket will help 15-year-old Rajasthan Royals (RR) prodigy Vaibhav Sooryavanshi "discover a whole different area of his cricket mentally and physically", but it will be a "rocky road" for the youngster.

Sooryavanshi has wowed one and all with his fearless hitting in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) season, having made 440 runs in 11 innings at an average of 40.00 and a strike rate of 236.55, including two centuries and two fifties.

His audacious take-down of world-class pacers like Jasprit Bumrah, Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar Kumar etc has opened up the talks about him being fast-tracked to the Indian T20I side.

However, he has not had a st...