IPL 2025: West Indies great compares Vaibhav Suryavanshi with Sachin Tendulkar

Former West Indies great Ian Bishop has compared Rajasthan Royals batting prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi with Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar. West Indies legend Bishop saw shades of a young Tendulkar in Suryavanshi, who hogged the limelight with his mind-blowing 35-ball century in the Rajasthan Royals' eight-wicket win against the Gujarat Titans.

After watching Suryavanshi's whirlwind knock against GT, Bishop narrated an unheard story about facing a 17-year-old Sachin in a tour game.

Unheard story about Sachin

"I was playing for Derbyshire, and we were playing against India at Chesterfield. Never forgot it. We batted first, and we must have made... don't know the exact numbers. Chesterfield bounces. You get in there, and it bounces. We were in the game, and this little...he was this high (gesturing with his hand), and he came into bat, faced a couple of balls, and I thought, okay, we've got this sewn up. The asking rate is a little challenging towards the end of the game, and this little kid cannot hit me anywhere. I ran up, and I made the mistake of bowling a little back of a length, thinking I'd talk him up and he hit me into a tree, way over deep mid-wicket, as far as I've ever been hit before. Sachin Tendulkar, age 17, shocked the living daylights out of an Ian Bishop in his pomp," said Bishop in a recent interaction.

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Then Bishop mentioned about Suryavanshi Vaibhav by saying that that he is even younger than what Sachin was in the game against Derbyshire, and the likes of Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj, and Rashid Khan must have gone through the same, which he felt 35 years back.

"This kid here is even younger. He's 14 years old, taking on world-class bowlers. That must have shocked the living daylights out of Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj and all the rest," Bishop added.