India, May 13 -- AB de Villiers has placed Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's next question in public view. The 15-year-old's T20 game has already exploded through the usual age-based caution around young players. The longer-format question now waits behind that noise.

Speaking on the For The Love of Cricket podcast with Stuart Broad and Jos Buttler, de Villiers said: "A lot of things will change unless someone comes around and says to him. Listen, you will be a T20 specialist for the rest of your life. Congratulations, that's all you're going to do. Then there will be a very long and successful career, but if he does start nibbling around in ODIs, particularly Test cricket, he will discover a whole different area of his cricket mentally and physica...