Before Mumbai Indians face off against Rajasthan Royals in their IPL encounter on Thursday, all the chatter surrounding the match is around the 14-year-old RR wonderkid Vaibhav Suryavanshi who slammed the second fastest ton in the league's history in 35 balls in the previous match against the Gujarat Titans on Monday. Coach Rahul Dravid, however, said that he did not want all the attention on the youngster due to he fact that it gets overwhelming but also added that Suryavanshi will have to find a way to handle the sudden stardom. "I think it won't be possible to completely sort of avoid him from the experience that is around him. I can't control what people are talking about him. I have come to this interaction and all I have heard is questions about Vaibhav," Dravid said in an interaction at the Star Sports Press Room. "It is going to be challenging for him but it is exciting at the same time. I would love to say that we should not shower him with that much attention. Maybe I am being naive as that it is not going to happen. Recognising that it happens and putting a certain level of support around that and navigate that attention and allow him space to be a youngster. It is part of being a cricketer in this country, it is impossible to distance yourself from and (you tend to get) sucked into it," he added. Even former RR and current MI Bowler Trent Boult said in the pre-match press conference that he was excited to bowl to the youngster but added that he wasn't particularly worried about it. “(I have) bowled to some brilliant batsmen around the world, the Chris Gayles, the AB de Villiers, all the quality that come in these tournaments. I think I'll be careful not to say I'm worried about a 14-year-old,” Boult said. “But it's going to be an exciting challenge to come up against a guy who's obviously fearless and running in hot form at the moment, so that's what it's about. The whole world saw that performance the other night. (It was a) quality (knock) from such a young kid. It's the beauty of this tournament, of all the players coming out and taking any opportunity with both hands and I thought he did that very nicely," he added.
