India, Feb. 11 -- Vaibhav Sooryavanshi received what could possibly be the biggest compliment of his young career when he got compared to the legendary Gary Sobers. With comparisons to the great Sachin Tendulkar now a thing of the past, the most recent likeness has been drawn by former England batter Mark Butcher, who feels everything about Sooryavanshi's batting is a chip off the old block popularised by Sobers.

Sooryavanshi is a six-hitting machine, riding the high of an uber successful year of top-flight cricket. With feats like becoming the youngest centurion in IPL, smashing hundreds in England, South Africa and Australia, and winning the Under-19 World Cup title to cap it off, Sooryavanshi couldn't have asked for a better start to ...