Rahul Dravid on Vaibhav Sooryavanshi: ‘Be patient with him’

Former India head coach Rahul Dravid urged Indian management to exercise patience when it comes to including 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in the Test cricket team. The young Bihar cricketer made his mark by becoming the youngest Indian player to debut in T20I cricket, surpassing Sachin Tendulkar's record. In the ongoing Duleep Trophy quarter-final against North East Zone, Sooryavanshi took two wickets in North East's second innings after he himself scored just eight runs in East Zone's first innings.

Dravid explained that Sooryavanshi's breakthrough into the Indian Test XI would be challenging, given the current performance of the national batsmen. The coach highlighted Sooryavanshi's immense potential and confidence in his ability to adapt to Test cricket, provided he gets ample domestic practice and experiences several seasons of red-ball cricket.

However, the former coach pointed out that the young star's hectic schedule in international white-ball cricket might pose a hurdle in maintaining the necessary domestic cricket commitments.