Vaibhav Suryavanshi, accompanying India’s Under-19 squad on their Australian tour, showcased his talent in the initial ODI series and a multi-day match, highlighted by a century. The question now becomes whether he can maintain his performance in the forthcoming second multi-day match against Australia. The reason for this uncertainty stems from his performance history.
Doubts about Suryavanshi’s performance in the second multi-day match against Australia are rooted in his past performances in red-ball cricket at the Under-19 level. Suryavanshi has previously competed in multi-day matches against both England and Australia. A close examination of his performances in these matches reveals a notable contrast between his performance in the first match and the second.
Across 5 multi-day matches, Suryavanshi has scored 311 runs, including two centuries, with an average of 38.87. Notably, three of these matches were the first in their respective series, and the remaining two were the second. In the first three matches, Suryavanshi scored 288 runs at an average of 57.60, with both his centuries included. Conversely, in the subsequent two matches, which were the second matches in the series, he scored a mere 23 runs, achieving a low average of 7.66.
In his youth test matches, Suryavanshi has played 3 matches against the Australian Under-19 team. Two of these were the first matches in their series, where he played impressively. Across his initial two matches against the Australian Under-19 team, he scored 218 runs with an average of 72.66, including two centuries. However, in the single match that he played as the second match of the series against Australia Under-19, his average was only 3.