India, May 17 -- Ravi Shastri has come out aggressively in support of teenage Indian star Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and wants him to debut for India without delay.

15-year-old Sooryavanshi has been a devastating force in white-ball cricket in the last couple of years, and he has scored two centuries in the IPL, where some of the top bowlers have bowled to him. Despite his great run, many have advocated that he should prove himself a little more before the selectors bestow the India debut on him. Shastri disagrees -- strongly.

"A lot of people will ask, is he 15, is he 16, is he 14? I don't care. I just see the way he is batting at the moment and the way he's taking on all comers twice his age or maybe two and a half times his age. It doesn't...