‘can he survive five days?’

Vaibhav Suryavanshi, a star at just 14 years old, is the next big thing in Indian cricket. Everyone is confident about this, but Yograj Singh settled the matter with a single statement…

New Delhi: The debut of Vaibhav Suryavanshi in the IPL in 2025 was outstanding and led to a lot of debate in India. The Rajasthan Royals teenager has scored 252 runs, including a world-record century off 35 balls against the Gujarat Titans. His fierce batting and fine performance has drawn comparisons with legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar.

On 10 April, he scored the quickest century by an Indian batsman in IPL history, nine days after he made his first milestone. That blistering version was going on; he just made 190 runs in 90 balls in a red-ball practice match at the BCCI Centre of Excellence, strengthening his prospects further before the India Under-19 tour of England.

Amid all this buzz around Vaibhav, a former cricketer Yograj Singh himself presented the other side of the coin in an interview with InsideSport, posing one important question.

“My vision is Test cricket. Can you survive five days? That’s the real test. 50 overs – fair enough. 20 overs – fair enough. I don’t go by these formats. But since they (formats) are there, you should be fit enough to play all three formats. Why do you struggle? Because you are only concentrating on T20, IPL and 50 overs. Aj toh 50 overs bhi nahi khel sakte hum log (Today, we cannot even play 50 overs). That’s the way we are,” he said.

“All the coaches and all the administrators want to sit in the air conditioning and do things. Here, I am under 48 degrees Celsius, having a passion to produce more brilliant cricketers like Yuvraj Singh,” he added.

While Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s IPL performance impressed many, Yograj Singh raised critical questions about it. “Can he survive five days? That’s the real test of a cricketer.”