Vaibhav Suryavanshi, the 14-year-old wonderkid from Samastipur, Bihar, ensured that he turns into a family identify in India after reaching a rarest of uncommon feat in world cricket. Together with his 35-ball century for Rajasthan Royals towards Gujarat Titans in an IPL 2025 match in Jaipur on Monday, Vaibhav Suryavanshi is now the second quickest centurion in IPL after Chris Gayle’s 30-ball knock for RCB and quickest ever for any Indian. When different 14-year-olds a cross the nation are busy finishing middle-school assignments and being admonished by quietly sneaking in for a PlayStation session, the left-handed Suryavanshi, merely stood and delivered towards Indian bowlers Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Siraj with a collective expertise of 141 Exams between them.
“It’s a superb feeling. It is my first hundred within the IPL and it is my third innings. The consequence has proven right here after the follow earlier than the event. I simply see the ball and play. Batting with Jaiswal is nice, he tells me what to do and he infuses optimistic issues. It has been a dream to get a 100 within the IPL and immediately it materialised. There is no such thing as a worry. I do not suppose a lot, I simply concentrate on taking part in,” Vaibhav Suryavanshi stated after the match-winning knock.
Vaibhav reached his century in 35 balls, which is the second-fastest century within the historical past of the IPL, under Chris Gayle’s 30-ball ton towards now-defunct Pune Warriors India for Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) again in 2013. Vaibhav is now additionally the quickest Indian to attain a century within the IPL.
The left-hander, on the age of 14 years and 32 days, is the youngest participant to attain a century in T20 cricket historical past, surpassing Vijay Zol ,who was 18 years and 118 days previous whereas scoring a century for Maharashtra towards Mumbai in 2013.
That is additionally the seventh-fastest century in T20 cricket, with the quickest one belonging to Sahil Chauhan of Estonia towards Cyprus in 2024, coming in simply 27 balls.
Suryavanshi additionally reached his fifty in simply 17 balls, the fifth-fastest in league historical past, making him the youngest ever to attain an IPL fifty.
Additionally, the 166-run stand between Vaibhav and Yashasvi Jaiswal is the very best partnership for any wicket for Rajasthan Royals, surpassing 155 by Jos Buttler & Devdutt Padikkal towards DC on the Wankhede in 2022.
Vaibhav, who kickstarted his IPL profession by slamming a sixer towards Shardul Thakur on his very first ball within the competitors, has now made 151 runs in three matches at a mean of 75.50 and a strike charge of 222.05, with the very best rating of 101*.
In the course of the IPL mega-auction final 12 months, one of many largest surprises that emerged was Suryavanshi turning into a Royal for Rs 1.1 crore. Born on March 27, 2011, in Bihar, Vaibhav is the youngest participant on the checklist. He made his first-class debut for Bihar in January 2024 at simply 12 years and 284 days previous. Final 12 months, he was a part of India U19’s match towards Australia in Chennai, the place he smashed a 58-ball century.
He additionally made his T20 debut for Bihar throughout the SMAT 2024 event, although he couldn’t rating a lot in his solely outing. He was additionally the seventh-highest run-getter within the ACC Beneath 19 Asia Cup 2024-25. He scored 176 runs in 5 matches within the event with a highest rating of 76*.
With ANI and PTI inputs
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