English all-rounder Sam Curran described Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s rise to the Indian team as an “amazing story”, saying the 15-year-old deserved the attention coming his way, while hoping England can keep him quiet if he makes his international debut in the ongoing T20I series.The cricketing world has been waiting for Sooryavanshi’s India debut ever since he was picked for the UK tour after featuring for Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2026. Speaking to the media ahead of the second T20I, Curran said that he had followed Sooryavanshi closely during the IPL.“I guess it’s an amazing story. I’ve been watching a lot of IPL for a month, and I’ve just been watching this guy, he looks so easy. It’s really amazing and rightly so, he’s getting the attention he deserves.“He’s so raw and just having a good time, isn’t he? Playing for India at 15 is such a cool story and I think even as an opponent you have to admire the skill and stuff like that,” Curran said.Curran believes the conditions in England could present a different challenge for the youngster.“I think England will probably be a different challenge, the pitches are very different, a lot slower than in India. Guys can have their own plans and all that stuff.“Well I guess we’ll have our plans, of course, but I’m not saying they’re the right plans, you never know because he’s playing really well.“But at the end of the day, I’ll try to apply my skills, but there’s no doubt he’s pretty special at what he does,” he said.Sooryavanshi finished IPL 2026 as the top run-scorer of the tournament, scoring 776 runs at a strike rate of over 230.Curran also said that Sooryavanshi’s biggest challenge could be handling the attention that comes with playing for India.“I think being an Indian cricketer in India is probably a lot bigger than us. So I think that’s probably going to be his biggest challenge, how he deals with it. He’s played one or two IPL seasons and now he’s straight in the Indian team. I’m sure he’s got people around him trying to help him. But I guess you never know until he makes his debut and you see how he goes.“I’m sure he’ll have his ups and downs like anybody else, but as a cricketer, you’ve got to enjoy what he’s doing because it’s pretty cool. At 15, I think I was just batting at a closed school in Surrey.”
