India have called up the prodigiously talented teenage batter Vaibhav Sooryavanshi for their T20 tour of England and Ireland, with the 15-year-old the youngest player selected for the senior men’s squad since Sachin Tendulkar in the late 1980s.Sooryavanshi, fresh from an eye-catching first full season in the Indian Premier League (IPL) where he ended as the tournament’s leading run scorer, is picked for the first time by the senior national side as the selectors build towards the 2028 T20 World Cup and Los Angeles Olympics.He will be captained by Shreyas Iyer, who replaces Suryakumar Yadav in the role.India play Ireland in Belfast on June 26 and 28, and then travel to England for five T20Is from July 1 to 11.If he debuts, Sooryavanshi would become the country’s youngest international player, eclipsing Tendulkar who played his first Test match in 1989 at the age of 16 years 205 days, following it up with his ODI bow 33 days later.Another member of the squad, Washington Sundar, is currently India’s youngest T20 international debutant having first been capped at 18 years 80 days. Sooryavanshi only turned 15 in March.
Presenting #TeamIndia's T20I squads for the tours of England & Ireland 2026 🇮🇳#ENGvIND | #IREvIND pic.twitter.com/f84kSSAIDf
