The Indian Premier League has been growing and continues to be the most exciting bit of cricketing experience that diehard fans had been yearning for. The 2025 edition is still some days away to get completed but what has stood out already, aside from the surge of sixes and fours is the way new cricketing talents have been demanding attention even as the 10 teams have been fighting, leaving no stone unturned in their immediate quest for a berth in the play offs. If fourteen-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi of Rajasthan Royals, personified the high of batting show with his sensational 35-ball century then Chennai Super kings, a five-time champion exposed the fickleness of the word “champion” with a forgettable show that made it the first team to lose its way before reaching the playoffs!

First the high and sure enough, none comes to mind other than Suryavanshi, the boy from Samastipur, Bihar. Someone who can hit the first ball he faced in IPL for a six has to be a special talent. Age is a number is a saying which is often referred to older people competing in a mix of younger ones but Suryavanshi is proving the other way around. Like a 16-year old Sachin Tendulkar during his debut series in Pakistan when a Waqar Younis bouncer left him with a........

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