Vaibhav Sooryavanshi breaks 57-year-old record, becomes youngest Duleep Trophy half-centurion

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Sooryavanshi, however, fell agonisingly short of breaking another record. Had he converted his knock into a century, he would have shattered legendary Sachin Tendulkar’s 36-year-old record of being the youngest Duleep Trophy centurion. Tendulkar had scored a century in the 1990/91 season at 17 years and 262 days. Sooryavanshi was dismissed for 92 off 81 balls, just eight runs short of what would have been a historic ton.

If he had reached three figures, he would also have become the second-youngest Indian ever to score a First-Class century. The record remains with Punjab’s Dhruv Pandove, who achieved the feat at 14 years and 293 days against Jammu & Kashmir in the 1988-89 Ranji Trophy season.

This was Sooryavanshi’s only second fifty in First-Class cricket. The 15-year-old from Bihar has already made a name for himself in white-ball cricket, having become the youngest Indian to make his international debut. However, the explosive hitter is yet to prove his mettle in red-ball cricket, with his First-Class numbers reading an underwhelming 215 runs from 13 innings at 16.53 before this knock.

Sooryavanshi has also been appointed vice-captain of the East Zone side. On Sunday, he briefly took over the captaincy when Ishan Kishan left the field after being hit on the wrist while keeping. The teenager even took a successful DRS review in Kishan’s absence.

East Zone bundled out defending champions Central Zone for 266 after inviting them to bat. At the time of writing, East Zone have reached 199/2 in 37 overs.