While Ireland will officially be the hosts in Belfast this afternoon the Boys in Green might be forgiven for thinking they are on a maidan in Mumbai when they take on India in the first of two T20 internationals.

This week’s heatwave will have made the tourists feel at home and upwards of 80 percent of the sell out crowds for today’s game and Sunday’s clash have been snapped up by Indian supporters hoping to see wonderkid opener Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.

The teenager, nicknamed Baby Boss, has taken the IPL by storm over the past two years — hitting his first ball for six on debut as a 14-year-old and topping the scoring in the most recent edition with 776 runs and a record 65 sixes.

Three months past his 15th birthday, Sooryavanshi will be India’s youngest debutant — taking 16-year-old Sachin Tendulkar’s record — if he plays in either match and given his expected future in the game the race will be on to be the first to dismiss him.

Left-arm spinner Matthew Humphreys who has been bowling the opening over for Ireland in T20s says it would “be cool” to claim the youngster’s wicket but knows he could be in for some fearsome treatment. 

“Opening the bowling, you’re taking on the best guys in the game,” he said. “The expectation is that you you’re going to get hit for six, though, so in that sense there’s less pressure.

“Sooryavanshi has put his name out there as one of the most explosive guys at the top of the order and as bowlers we have to do our research and work out a plan for him.”

Whether the teenager fires or not, missing injured first choices Paul Stirling, Mark Adair, Curtis Campher, Josh Little and Barry McCarthy, it will be a mighty achievement for Ireland to get close to beating the T20 World Cup winners in either game.