Pollard Urges Patience with 'Don't Hype and Dump' Vaibhav Suryavanshi

Mumbai Indians coach Kieron Pollard’s dropping a timely warning about Rajasthan Royals’ 15-year-old opener Vaibhav Suryavanshi. Don’t pump up the kid sky-high, he’s saying—then ditch him when he flops, like so many do. That’s the trap with RR’s teenage gun, who’s already blasted 200 runs in four IPL games. Strike rate? A ridiculous 266.66.

He couldn’t stress patience enough for raw talents like this. “Biggest fear,” Pollard put it, “is building them up only to tear them down when things go wrong.” RR’s flying early, sure—fresh off knocking over MI and RCB. Suryavanshi didn’t blink. MI’s scraped one win from three. Now it’s RCB at Wankhede. Both still smarting.