Jofra Archer<\/a>, who played a crucial role with the ball in the Eliminator, summed up the growing fear among bowlers perfectly.\u201cThe more runs he scores, the more runs we have to defend. He can get 150,\u201d Archer said.With Rajasthan Royals now set to face Gujarat Titans in Qualifier 2, the cricketing world waits to see whether the fearless teenager can produce another extraordinary performance on the biggest stage.<\/p>\nDo you agree with comparison of Sooryavanshi to Shahid Afridi?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Shahid Afridi NEW DELHI: The cricket world is still struggling to come to terms with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":991497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,117778,33965,67663,118193,275375,4125,275373,79,11541,275374,16,15,36733],"class_list":["post-991496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-ipl-2026","tag-ipl-records","tag-jofra-archer","tag-mohammad-yousuf","tag-qualifier-2","tag-rajasthan-royals","tag-shahid-afridi-comparison","tag-sports","tag-sunrisers-hyderabad","tag-teenage-cricket-sensation","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-vaibhav-sooryavanshi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116655900039348173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/991497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\u2018Future](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1780027641_503_vaibhav-sooryavanshi.jpg\" "\\"Vaibhav")
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Shahid Afridi NEW DELHI: The cricket world is still struggling to come to terms with Vaibhav Sooryavanshi\u2019s astonishing IPL 2026 Eliminator knock, and now former Pakistan batting great Mohammad Yousuf has joined the growing list of admirers with a comparison that instantly grabbed attention.Less than 24 hours after the 15-year-old Rajasthan Royals sensation demolished Sunrisers Hyderabad with a breathtaking 97 off just 29 balls, Yousuf declared that the teenager reminded him of a young Shahid Afridi. \u201c15-year-old cricket sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi reminds me of @SAfridiofficial \u2014 young, fearless, explosive, full of energy. The future is here!\u201d Yousuf posted on X.The comparison with Afridi \u2014 one of cricket\u2019s most destructive hitters during his peak years \u2014 only added to the growing hype surrounding the teenage prodigy, whose fearless batting has become the biggest talking point of IPL 2026. ![\"Sooryavanshi\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sooryavanshi.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
<\/p>\n