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It is normal for a teenager to play the bowler and not the ball but Vaibhav Sooryanshi doesn't care about who he is facing, his Rajasthan Royals teammate Dhruv Jurel pointed out. The 15-year-old has cared little for reputation all through this IPL whether it is having a go at Jasprit Bumrah or more recently at Pat Cummins. The list of champion bowlers who have been at the receiving end of Sooryavanshi's onslaught include Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood and Kagiso Rabada. On Wednesday, he made Cummins, a multiple time World Cup winner and among the shrewdest operators in the game, look clueless with his barrage of sixes. Cummins tried to curtail his free flowing bat swing by bowling full into the leg-stump but Sooryavanshi made instant adjustments to dispatch the ball over the Australian's head. The subsequent short ball was slashed over third man while the next delivery, a slower ball, was smoked down the ground. Cummins had run out of ideas in the third over. Sooryavanshi ended up
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