India, Feb. 6 -- It's no longer fashionable to ask what you were doing when you were 14, because few have done even at 24 what Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has done just into his teens.

Just about the only confusion when it comes to the young lad is whether he is Sooryavanshi or Sooryavanshi. At some stage, that will sort itself out. For now, the left-hander is busy sorting out bowling attacks, putting them in their place, and doing so with the flair, chutzpah and authority of someone who is a seasoned campaigner, not the babe in the woods that he truly is.

Handpicked by former national junior selection panel chairman VS Thilak Naidu, the ex-Karnataka wicketkeeper-batter, Sooryavanshi has bucked every convention. Comparisons have sought to be d...