India, May 8 -- As if calls for Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's India debut were not growing louder already, the youngster has now been backed to break into the Test team. Sooryavanshi is just 15, and considering what he has achieved in the last year, former cricketers cannot wait to see him don the Indian jersey. He has mostly played T20 cricket, with a bit of ODIs here and there. Red ball cricket is the format he has featured in the least. With only eight First-Class matches, but a few Youth Tests to his name, Sooryavanshi can surely become an India Test prospect in the long run, but for the moment, he is best suited to the format in which he has excelled the most.

Yet, Zubin Bharucha, Sooryavanshi's mentor and the man responsible for bringing ...