IPL 2026: Vaibhav Suryavanshi broke the records of these four greats including Gayle with his stormy innings.

Sports Desk. On the basis of the stormy innings of Vaibhav Suryavanshi (97), Rajasthan Royals defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 47 runs in the eliminator match of the 19th season of the Indian Premier League and made their place in Qualifier 2. Now it will face Gujarat Titans to reach the finals. Vaibhav Suryavanshi has registered many records in his name on the basis of this innings.

As soon as 15-year-old opening batsman Vaibhav Suryavanshi hit the 7th six of his innings in the eliminator match, he also broke the all-time record of former great West Indies batsman Chris Gayle for hitting the most sixes in a season. Vaibhav Suryavanshi played an inning of 97 runs in 29 balls. In this innings, he hit a total of 12 sixes along with 5 fours. With this, his number of sixes in this edition of IPL has increased to 65. Chris Gayle had hit the maximum number of 59 sixes in 2012. Now Suryavanshi has destroyed this record of Gayle.

Rishabh Pant’s record also broken

With this innings, Vaibhav Suryavanshi also completed his figure of 600 runs in this season. With this he has broken the record of Rishabh Pant. He has now become the youngest cricketer to score 600 or more runs in an IPL season. Pant had achieved this feat on behalf of Delhi Capitals in the 2018 IPL season.

Jaiswal and Gill were also left behind"At the same time, he has left behind Yashasvi Jaiswal’s record of scoring 625 runs as an uncapped player in the 2023 IPL season. Vaibhav also registered the record of hitting most sixes in an innings of IPL playoff/knockout matches. Earlier, Shubman Gill had hit 10 sixes against Mumbai Indians in Qualifier-2 of 2023.

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