Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has captured the imagination of the cricketing world. Everyone’s talking about him.
It’s the nature of cricket where everyone just keeps being sceptical – “let’s see him do it outside of India. Let’s see him do it in international cricket.” But I’ve not seen a guy who is that consistent in power hitting against some of the best in the world.
Sooryavanshi single-handedly carried the Royals. If someone around him had shown some consistency and some performance, they would definitely have reached the final. Sometimes I watch him and can’t believe he’s just whacking it in every game!
There have been some unbelievable prospects in different formats of the game over the years, but I can’t remember a better batting prospect since T20 took off around 2007. He consistently scores all around the park – it’s not like he’s got one side that he targets. We’ve seen people attack him with the short ball and he’s had options for that, and the margin for error when bowling to him is minimal. I hope he goes to England, finds his feet quickly and shows the world what he can do on the international stage.
It’s an interesting selection from India, and brave for a team that’s just won a World Cup to make the big, bold calls they have. I think it’s smart – there are two years between World Cups and they’re giving their young talent the best chance to get as many games as possible before the next World Cup.
They’re blessed with talent, but I think the selectors have shown courage and foresight. You might not win everything up front, but the plan is to be ready for two years’ time, and I think it’s food for thought for the other countries.
Lord’s pitch looked like a batter’s worst nightmare
For England’s leadership, winning their first Test since the Ashes will be a huge relief. It was a tricky Test match, with the surface and the overhead conditions, but England were ahead of the game pretty much throughout.
The pitch at Lord’s has been a big talking point, and having been a batter, I have to say it’s very difficult if the pitch is doing it all – up and down, swinging and seaming all over the place. It almost makes batting a lottery. You just know that at some point, something has got your name on it.
It’s your worst nightmare as a batter, but I also think batters’ techniques today and the way they think about the game is not really to say, “how can I fight for two hours to get to an older ball?” They still want to keep playing. The techniques and mindsets are different.
Sometimes the ground staff can just get it wrong. It wasn’t a good surface and the MCC have owned that. What you don’t want is there to be an overreaction to these things, and suddenly the pitch is super flat in the next games. It’s about always trying to find the balance between bat and ball, and keep it entertaining for people watching.
Ollie Robinson was one of the bowlers who thrived in those conditions, and I think if you’re going to come back into the England squad with his skillset, you couldn’t have asked for a better surface. He hits good areas and can get the ball to talk.
From the outside looking in, the challenge for Ollie Robinson in his career has always been a little bit of fitness, and then when you get good surfaces around the world outside England, without the Dukes ball, how does he measure up there? He’s played a fair amount of county cricket and earned his spot back, but England in early summer when the ball’s dipping around are the conditions that he thrives in.
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