New Delhi. The manner in which the bat of Rajasthan Royals’ young star Vaibhav Suryavanshi is on fire in IPL 2026 has surprised the entire cricketing world. At the age of just 15, Vaibhav has achieved a feat which great batsmen could not do in the history of IPL. In the eliminator match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Vaibhav created a series of records by playing an explosive inning of 97 runs in just 29 balls.
During this stormy innings, Vaibhav Suryavanshi hit 5 fours and 12 skyscraper sixes. With these 12 sixes, he broke Chris Gayle’s 14-year-old record of hitting most sixes in a single season of IPL. Earlier this record was in the name of ‘Universe Boss’ Chris Gayle, who had hit 59 sixes in a season in 2012. Now Vaibhav Suryavanshi has reached the top of this list with 65 sixes.
The most important thing was that Vaibhav Suryavanshi missed his century by just three runs. If he had not been out on the 29th ball, perhaps he would have scored the fastest century in IPL history. This record is currently in the name of Chris Gayle who scored a century in just 30 balls in 2013.
After this record-breaking innings of Vaibhav, he is being praised a lot on social media. Many legendary players including Sachin Tendulkar, who is called the God of Cricket, described his batting as special. But the most discussion took place when Chris Gayle himself shared a post on social media praising Vaibhav.
Chris Gayle shared Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s statistics on Instagram Story and This reaction of the Universe Boss shows that Vaibhav’s batting has impressed even one of the most explosive batsmen in the world.
This innings of Vaibhav Suryavanshi also had an impact on the Orange Cap race. Now he has 680 runs in his name in IPL 2026 and he has become the highest run scoring batsman. With this, he has become the first player in IPL history to score more than 600 runs in a season with a strike rate of more than 200.
If we talk about the match, Rajasthan Royals batted first and scored a huge score of 243 runs. At one time it seemed that the team would reach 280 runs, but after Vaibhav was out, the team’s pace slowed down. Dhruv Jurel definitely scored a half-century but the rest of the batsmen could not contribute much.
Sunrisers Hyderabad, which set out to chase the target of 244 runs, had a very bad start. After the early dismissal of the top order, the entire team came under pressure and was reduced to 196 runs. Hyderabad team could not even play the full 20 overs.
Now Rajasthan Royals will face Gujarat Titans in Qualifier-2 on May 29. This match will be played in New Chandigarh. The winning team of this match will face Royal Challengers Bangalore in the final. But at present only one name is being discussed the most in the cricket world and that name is Vaibhav Suryavanshi.
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