Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, the young opener, should be thrown into the India international squad as soon as possible, according to former India coach and cricketer Ravi Shastri.

Sooryavanshi is scoring a lot of runs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) with the Rajasthan Royals after playing a key part in India's victory at the ICC Men's Under-19 Cricket World Cup at the beginning of the year.

In the IPL 2026, Sooryavanshi has scored 440 runs in 11 matches with one century and two fifties. He scored a superb 36-ball ton against Sunrisers Hyderabad. He has scored his runs at a staggering strike rate of 236.56 and hammered 40 sixes.

“The door would be three-fourths open. I can tell you that, for sure, because if you want to encourage or get someone young and into the setup as quickly as possible, then it's the T20 format of the game, and he is not short by any margin. This guy can walk into a lot of sides in world cricket at the current moment in time. Just when you look at the exuberance of youth, that youth shows on his face,” Shastri said on The ICC Review.

Sooryavanshi will be the youngest Indian debutant ever, and Shastri proposed that an impending trip to Ireland in June could be the ideal moment to include him.

“A lot of people will ask, is he 15? Is he 16? Is he 14? I don't care. I just see the way he is batting at the moment and the way he's taking on all comers twice his age or maybe two and a half times his age. It doesn't matter to him. So, I think he's very, very much in the reckoning. And when you have tours of Ireland, and all this is happening now, I would be looking into him straight away,” Shastri stated.

Sooryavanshi recently received his first one-day call-up as he was included in the India A squad for the tri-series in Sri Lanka, also involving Afghanistan.