India, June 30 -- Former India batter Mohammad Kaif lashed out at the team management for not handing Vaibhav Sooryavanshi a debut in the two-match series against Ireland, which the Men in Blue eventually lost under the captaincy debut of Shreyas Iyer. The 15-year-old broke the door down in terms of selection in the senior squad, and Ajit Agarkar, the chairman of the selection committee, summed it up best: the left-handed batter picked himself after a sensational IPL 2026 season for the Rajasthan Royals, where he scored 776 runs.

Kaif said that the rationale for keeping Sooryavanshi out did not make any sense to him, and he even reminded head coach Gautam Gambhir that Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav were removed as captains because the...