New Delhi, May 4 -- Former India head coach Greg Chappell has warned the BCCI against managing 14-year-old cricket prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi. The young left-hander shot to fame after being selected by Rajasthan Royals in the IPL 2025 auction, and later with his thrilling century against Gujrat Titans last month.

Chapell warned that while Suryavanshi bats with the authority of a man twice his age, he is "still a child - physiologically, neurologically, emotionally."

"His brain is still wiring itself, his values still forming, his identity still fragile. In that context, such acclaim, such expectation, such public adulation, can become a double-edged sword." Chapell noted in his column for ESPNCricinfo.

He added that child prodigies ca...