India, Sept. 20 -- Suryakumar Yadav has spent much of his T20 career making the improbable look routine, manipulating fields with audacious strokes and turning deliveries well outside conventional scoring zones into boundaries. Yet when the former India T20I captain was asked to identify one skill from another cricketer that he would like to possess, his answer was not attached to one of the game's established superstars.

Instead, Suryakumar turned towards India's 15-year-old batting phenomenon Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, whose extraordinary ability to clear the boundary has already made him one of the most discussed young cricketers in the game. "There is a young boy, you must have heard his name - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. Definitely his six-hit...