'Don't Compare Vaibhav Suryavanshi To Sachin Tendulkar': Steve Waugh Praises 'Freakish' Legend

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Last Updated:May 27, 2025, 13:52 IST

Steve Waugh reckons that it's not close to comparison anyone with Sachin Tendulkar, citing the legendary batter's freakish show successful Australia arsenic a teenager.

Sachin Tendulkar (left) and Vaibhav Suryavanshi (AFP/BCCI)

With Vaibhav Suryavanshi rewriting past by slamming an IPL period astatine the property of 14 recently, the inevitable comparisons with a definite Sachin Tendulkar, who besides dazzled the satellite arsenic a teen earlier becoming an all-time great, followed. However, Australia fable Steve Waugh doesn’t privation anyone to beryllium compared to Tendulkar citing his ‘freakish’ period arsenic an 18-year-old successful Perth, a venue erstwhile considered to beryllium a batter’s worst nightmare and wide regarded arsenic the fastest transportation successful the world.

Tendulkar famously scored 114 disconnected 161 during the Perth Test of February 1992 to go the youngest ever to people a 100 connected Australian soil.

“I don’t deliberation you tin comparison anyone to Sachin Tendulkar," Waugh said during an lawsuit successful Mumbai. “I mean, a 16-year-old (18-year-old) coming retired to Australia and scoring a period successful Perth connected the hardest, (the) astir unsocial transportation successful satellite cricket wherever astir players truly conflict to play connected a pitch."

“…for him to people a period arsenic a teen successful Perth was a freakish performance. It’s precise uncommon you get a Sachin Tendulkar travel along. But I would ne'er person expected a 14-year-old to people a 100 successful the IPL, that was unthinkable," helium added.

Tendulkar retired arsenic the astir prolific run-getter successful planetary cricket history.

Waugh says helium cannot ideate himself being that palmy astatine the property of 14.

“Even close present it’s unthinkable. I look backmost to myself arsenic a 14-year-old and I couldn’t contemplate being successful that concern and being successful," Waugh said.

For Suryavanshi, Waugh reckons, the adjacent situation volition beryllium to proceed playing the aforesaid mode helium has shown.

“Can helium play the aforesaid mode with the aforesaid enthusiasm, the aforesaid state arsenic helium has done this year? That’ll beryllium his challenge. He’s got a batch of skill, he’s mentally pugnacious and he’s got a large backstory, truthful you privation to spot idiosyncratic similar that beryllium successful. It’s a large communicative for cricket and for maine watching from a agelong mode away," Waugh said.

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