Rising Stars Asian Cup: One shot too many – Vaibhav Sooryavanshi falls for 12, hot streak ends with rare low score | Cricket News
Prodigy Vaibhav Sooryavanshi suffered a rare setback on Tuesday when he was dismissed for 12 against Oman in the final league match of the Rising Stars Asia Cup in Doha, Qatar.Sooryavanshi struggled throughout his short innings and was 8 off 11 balls at one point. Sooryavanshi hit Jay Odedra over the cover for a boundary on the first ball of the fifth over, and tried to hit a six straight down the ground with the next ball, but it proved to be one shot too many as he was caught by Aryan Bisht on the boundary.Sooryavanshi hit two boundaries in his 13-ball innings.
Earlier, 14-year-old Sooryavanshi slammed a 32-ball century to set the stage on fire in India A’s opening match against UAE in the Rising Stars Asia Cup. The opener had hit a total of 15 sixes and 11 fours to make 144 off 42 balls. In the second Group B league match on Sunday against Pakistan Shaheens also, Sooryavanshi had continued his good form, top-scoring with 45 off 28 deliveries, hitting five boundaries and three sixes.Suryavanshi, who made his IPL debut last season, already holds the record for the competition’s second-fastest century off 35 balls, when he scored 101 off 38 balls for Rajasthan Royals against Gujarat Titans. The Rising Stars Asia Cup teams have been divided into two groups: Group A includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka, while Group B includes India, Oman, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates.
