Maninder believes that, while Sooryavanshi has taken the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL 2026) by storm, he has the ability and the talent to play all formats of the game. Drawing parallels with two of India’s finest cricketers, Virender Sehwag, possibly the best Indian opener after the great Sunil Gavaskar, and Jasprit Bumrah, who is possibly one of the greatest all-formats bowlers of all time, both initially thought to be primarily white-ball cricketers, before making a name for themselves in the red-ball format, proving their critics wrong in ways hardly anybody ever imagined.
