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07/23 09:38 CDT Teenager Sooryavanshi blasts 50 off 18 as India cruises past
Zimbabwe in T20
Teenager Sooryavanshi blasts 50 off 18 as India cruises past Zimbabwe in T20
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) --- The 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi hit his first
international half-century for India as Zimbabwe was comfortably beaten by
seven wickets in a Twenty20 on Thursday.
Sooryavanshi scored 50 off 18 balls. He was out next ball at 68-2, top-edging
an attempted cut at Richard Ngarava.
But the teenager had turned the chase of 126 into a doddle and Shreyas Iyer was
in the middle at 126-3 to celebrate his first win as captain in eight T20s.
Zimbabwe made 125-7 after Mayank Yadav and Prince Yadav took two wickets each.
Sooryavanshi replaced Sachin Tendulkar this month as the youngest player to
represent India but his output in the T20 series in England was modest: 14, 13,
15 at a strike rate of 168. He was replaced for the last match and India lost
the series 4-0.
The selectors hoped Sooryavanshi would thrive in a low-key series at the same
cricket ground where he blasted 175 off 80 balls against England in February in
the final of the Under-19 World Cup.
Sooryavanshi on Thursday took four balls to smash his first six over backward
square. The other sixes cleared long-off, fine leg and long-on.
The second of three matches is on Saturday.
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