Vaibhav Suryavanshi World Record: Vaibhav Suryavanshi could not become ‘Player of the Match’ even after scoring a half-century in 18 balls.

These days, only one name is being discussed the most in international cricket, and that is the 15-year-old young sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi. In the first T20 match played against Zimbabwe, this young player has registered his name in the pages of history by creating havoc with the bat. Making a comeback after a disappointing performance on the last tour against England, Vaibhav has created a new world record by scoring a stormy fifty in just 18 balls on the Harare ground. He has become the youngest player in the world to score a half-century not only in T20 but also in any format of international cricket. However, despite this historic and record-breaking innings, he was not awarded the ‘Player of the Match’ award, after which the question is arising in the minds of the fans that who got this award and why? Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s stormy ‘Dhamaka’, the bowlers were blown away, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who came on the field with the brilliant performance of IPL 2026 and the experiences of India A and Under-19 cricket, has once again proved his talent. In the very first match of the series against Zimbabwe, he wreaked havoc with his aggressive batting. After playing with some caution in the initial over of the innings, Vaibhav adopted an aggressive approach in the second over and destroyed the Zimbabwean bowlers. Facing just 19 balls, he played an explosive inning of 50 runs, which included 4 brilliant fours and as many skyscraper sixes. Thanks to his brilliant innings, India took full advantage of the power play, but despite this, someone else was chosen as the best player of the match. Mayank Yadav became ‘Player of the Match’, turned the entire match with bowling. Despite Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s historic world record and half-century, the title of ‘Player of the Match’ went to Indian fast bowler Mayank Yadav. Mayank Yadav, who was returning to Team India after a long gap of almost two years, had created fear on the Zimbabwean batsmen with the very first ball of the match. He made a great start to the match by taking the wicket of Brian Bennett on the very first ball of his spell. This was the second time in just the fourth match of his T20 career that Mayank took a wicket on the first ball of the match. Mayank’s lethal bowling in the powerplay had decided India’s victory. Mayank Yadav wove such a web of speed and accuracy in his first three overs that the host team could never recover from it. He took 2 important wickets while spending only 10 runs in his powerplay quota. Due to this initial pressure from Mayank, Zimbabwe team could score only 125 runs in the stipulated 20 overs. This killer bowling of Mayank had made it very easy for the Indian batsmen to chase the target, after which Vaibhav Suryavanshi and other batsmen easily won the match. Due to this excellent and match-turning bowling performance, Mayank Yadav was chosen as ‘Player of the Match’ and Vaibhav Suryavanshi missed out on this award despite achieving the historic achievement.