NEW DELHI: Former India captain Kris Srikanth strongly criticized the Indian team management over the way 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi was treated during the T20I tours of Ireland and England.Sooryavanshi did not get a game in the Ireland series and was then drafted into the playing XI against England next. Saint Samson fought for runs. However, after playing three matches, the teenager was dropped again for the fifth and final T20I. India lost the five-match series 0-4. Srikkanth said he was particularly unhappy with the captaincy Shreyas IyerThe explanation of the change to the toss before the final T20I.At the toss, Iyer had defended the decision saying, “I think this is the time we need to prove what is best for us as a team. So based on that, we decided this.”The remark did not go down well with Srikkanth.“I was so upset with the interview after the launch,” Srikkanth said on his YouTube channel.I questioned the team’s approach towards young players and said that the same standards should apply to everyone in the set-up.“This is not the way to talk. How you treat your players, how you form a young team is important. If this is the way forward, the way forward is to change everyone (the leadership group). He said that we want to take the best way forward. If you are willing to leave the players based on their performance, the same criteria should apply to Gautam Gambhirthe same criteria should also apply to the captain. You’re saying the players didn’t perform, what was your performance?”Sooryavanshi was brought into the side after Sanju Samson, the Player of the Tournament at this year’s T20 World Cup, failed to score in three successive innings. The teenager managed scores of 14 in Manchester, 13 in Nottingham and 15 in Bristol, before being left out of the final match.Srikkanth asked what the young man had done wrong.“What wrong has Vaibhav Sooryavanshi done? Is this how you do to young players?”The former India opener compared the situation with his own experience as a captain when he was handed a 16-year-old. Sachin Tendulkar his international debut during the 1989 tour of Pakistan.He said supporting a young player was crucial to building confidence.“Shreyas Iyer said to the toss ‘we want to return to the best possible way’. Is this your best way forward? What is this interview? If you think Sanju Samson was the best fit, then you should continue with him. Why bring in Vaibhav and then drop him? Why ruin his future? You are all ruining his confidence. When Sachin Tendulu made his debut and told him. to be dropped in this tour. Play without fear’.“Srikkanth said the current management should have shown the same faith in Sooryavanshi instead of dropping him after just three matches.“If Gambhir and Shreyas should not give Sooryavanshi that kind of confidence? It is not fair. I am very disappointed with the way they treated Vaibhav Sooryavanshi,” he said.