Former Indian batter Manoj Tiwary said Vaibhav Sooryavanshi will need to understand a little after his altercation incident against Sri Lanka A. Tiwary highlighted that many international teams are jealous of India and there will always be many verbal battles.
Sooryavanshi, who has hogged the limelight in the last two months for his pyrotechnics in IPL 2026, was involved in an altercation with Vishen Halambage.
After Sri Lanka A won the Super Over, the home team players celebrated aggressively in front of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Suryansh Shedge. During the customary post-match handshake, Halambage reportedly told Sooryavanshi. “Go home. This is not the IPL.”
Sooryavanshi then lost his cool and shoved the Sri Lankan all-rounder, forcing the other players to come in between to stop the fight.
“Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has to understand a little. There will always be verbal battles against us on the pitch, because there are many countries that are jealous of us. So, they will provoke you. The way Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s IPL campaign went, and the way he is moving forward and getting everything, so they will poke him more. The way a 15-year-old is progressing, they are jealous of it. So, we have to prepare him for it,” Manoj Tiwary said on Cricbuzz.
“It is upto him what kind of image he wants to create in the cricketing world. One path is like Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, who are generally calm people, they answer through performances. The other route is like Virat Kohli, people who are aggressive. Now he needs to decide how people want to perceive him. Anger is important, but it is important to point it in the right direction,” he continued.
On the other hand, Sooryavanshi was dismissed after scoring 38 runs off 28 balls against Afghanistan A on Wednesday and thus Tiwary reckons the fight incident is playing on his mind.
“No one will take action against him for this, but he must realise what he has done. No one wants to see an emerging player be involved in pushing and shoving. The more he plays, the more he will understand about the conduct in the field. But under any circumstances, he should not go outside the laws of the game. People are watching him, and his behavior will be noted. He scored only 30-40 runs today, so it is affecting him, as he did not score as much he should have” Manoj Tiwary concluded.
Sooryavanshi recently amassed 776 runs in 16 matches of IPL 2026.
