A Farmer Sold His Land So His Son Could Play Cricket — Now That Son Is Younger Than Sachin Was on Debut
By BrainBuzz Team | July 2026 | Sports and India | 9 min read A Farmer Sold His Land So His Son Could Play Cricket — Now That Son Is Younger Than Sachin Was on Debut In a village called Tajpur in the Samastipur district of Bihar, a farmer named Sanjiv Sooryavanshi once had a dream of playing cricket for India. It did not happen. So he did the only thing a certain kind of father can do — he made sure it would happen for someone else. He sold his ancestral farmland. He drove his son 100 kilometres to Patna every week for training. He built a practice area in their backyard. And on July 5 2026, his son Vaibhav walked out to bat for India in a T20 international against England in Manchester — at the age of 15 years and 99 days. Younger than Sachin Tendulkar was on his debut. The youngest cricketer to ever represent India in international cricket. This is not just a cricket story. It is a story about what a father's belief can do when the chil...
