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Former India cricketer and World Cup-winning all-rounder Yuvraj Singh’s father, Yograj Singh, has come up with a big statement while speaking about the teenage talents Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Ayush Mhatre. He also emphasised that both youngsters to focus on their fitness and acclimatise themselves according to the needs of Test cricket.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Ayush Mhatre shone with the bat in the recently concluded Indian Premier League 2025 (IPL 2025). Suryavanshi also made it to the headlines for his fastest century off just 35 balls against the Gujarat Titans. He scored 252 runs in seven innings, with a sensational strike rate of 206.56, hitting a century and a half-century.
Can you survive five days? – Yograj Singh
Meanwhile, former India star Yograj Singh has something else to say about his expectations from youngsters like Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Ayush Mhatre.
“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,” said Yograj Singh to InsideSport in an interview.
“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 later.
Speaking of Suryavanshi’s prowess in red-ball cricket, he recently smashed 190 runs off just balls in a multi-day red-ball practice game in Bengaluru at the BCCI Centre of Excellence (CoE). Besides that, he has also been included in India’s U-19 squad for the tour of England; the team will be led by the young CSK batter and another teenage prodigy Ayush Mhatre.