The Psephologist who predicted Bihar results and the teenage sensation at Doha !!
Bihar’s assembly election results have delivered a sweeping win for the NDA government. The victory was no surprise, with most exit polls predicting a clear return to power for the National Democratic Alliance. However, none of them could gauge the massive scale of the political shakeup that gave NDA a landslide victory, pushing its tally to a whopping 206 seats, in the 243-member.
Social
media is abuzz with an X post of former Union
Minister Yashwant Sinha, three days
ahead of the Bihar Assembly election results. Laced with sarcasm, the post
turned out to be a prophecy as the 88-year-old
Sinha, whose barbs at the ruling dispensation often draw eyeballs, accidentally
outdid even psephologists and political analysts by foretelling Bihar's electoral
fate, that too, with precision.
He tweeted
"The exit polls of Bihar assembly
polls are all wrong. My survey shows that NDA is winning at least 200 seats and
Mahagathbandhan is being wiped out !!!!
Unlikely you recognize this Cricketer – he is Sahil Chauhan !!
Episkopi is a village and a municipal district of Cyprus, an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, located off the coast of the Levant in West Asia. Cyprus’ capital is Nicosia. The island is the third largest and third most populous in the Mediterranean, after Sicily and Sardinia - Wonder the reference in a Cricket post !!
This morning at Eden Gardens, Kolkatta, South Africa won the toss, opted to bat, raced away to 57 no loss in 10 overs, but then became victims of Jasprit Bumrah's 16th five-wicket haul and excellent support work from Kuldeep Yadav and Mohammed Siraj. India, with a new No. 3 in Washington Sundar, crawled slowly, slowly to 37 for 1 in 20 overs which was pain to watch.
The hero
of the Post is child-faced Cricketer from Bihar - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
who
plays for Bihar in domestic cricket and Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier
League. He is the youngest Indian List A
debutant and the youngest to debut in the Indian Premier League.
Tournament by name - Rising Stars Asia Cup 2025, organized by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) is underway at Doha. The tournament - first held in 2013 as the Emerging Teams Asia Cup - has completed six editions so far. The 2025 competition, to be played in T20 format, marks its first under the new Rising Stars banner. The U23 Indian cricket team won the inaugural edition held in Singapore while Afghanistan A lifted the title - the last Emerging Teams Asia Cup - in Oman last year. Sri Lanka and Pakistan are also past champions. This year’s edition runs from November 14 to 23 with eight teams - five ‘A’ or developmental squads from full-member nations and three associate national sides - battling it out for the continental team.
The India A cricket team, led by wicketkeeper-batter Jitesh Sharma, has been placed in Group B alongside Pakistan Shaheens (Pakistan A), UAE and Oman. The other group has : Afghanistan A, Sri Lanka A, Bangladesh A, Hong Kong. Each side will play their other three group members once before the top two from each pool move to the semi-finals. The final will be played on November 23.
Today, the Indian batting sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi continued to smash records as he blazed 144 off just 42 deliveries in India A's opening game in the Asia Cup Rising Stars 2025 against UAE. His century, coming off just 32 balls, was the joint-second fastest by an Indian in men's T20s. His score was also the fourth-highest for an Indian in the format.
Suryavanshi, at 14 years and 232 days, also became the youngest man to score a hundred for a national representative team at senior level. It was a record previously held by Bangladesh's Mushfiqur Rahim, who was 16 years and 171 days old when he scored 111* for Bangladesh A against Zimbabwe A in a first-class match in 2005. Suryavanshi was dropped first ball but made full use of his second life, hammering 11 fours and 15 sixes in his knock before getting out in the 13th over. He finished with a strike rate of 342.85, the fourth highest for a score of 100 or more in men's T20s.
This was Suryavanshi's second T20 century, following his 35-ball effort for Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2025. He is the youngest man to score a hundred in T20s. He had become the second-fastest centurion in IPL history, only behind Chris Gayle, who had taken 30 deliveries for his ton against Pune Warriors in 2011. He credited his father for helping him stay focused during games. He also played down talks of feeling pressure, despite drawing attention at a young age. India A raced to 297 for 4, the joint fifth-highest team total in men's T20s, with captain Jitesh Sharma applying the finishing touches with an unbeaten 83 off 32 balls.
In case you still remember the reference and the photo at the start - Sahil Chauhan is an Indian-origin Estonian cricketer who currently holds the record of fastest century in Twenty20 International. Sahil studied at DAV Senior Public School, Surajpur. then, graduated Punjab University. He currently works as a manager in a chain of restaurants, in Estonia.
Back in Jan 2024 - at Episkopi against Cyprus - Sahil Chauhan, the Estonia batter, smashed a
century off just 27 balls making it the fastest century in all T20s. Along
the way, Chauhan also got to the top of the table for most sixes - 18 - in a
men's T20I innings.
Interesting !
Regards – S Sampathkumar
14.11.2025
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