New Delhi, June 7 -- Indian cricket has a fresh new face making waves. Fifteen-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has earned a call-up to the senior men's T20I squad for the upcoming tours of Ireland and England. At 15 years and 71 days, he is now the youngest player ever selected for India's senior team. This breaks the record held by Sachin Tendulkar since 1989. The selection has created huge excitement across the country. It shows the selectors are ready to back raw talent when they see it.

Sachin Tendulkar received his first India call-up as a teenager and went on to become one of the greatest ever to play the game. For more than three decades, nobody came close to matching that early entry into the senior setup. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has ...