Vaibhav Suryavanshi: 15 year old Vaibhav Suryavanshi created history, scored the youngest half-century in T20I

Vaibhav Suryavanshi Fifty Against Zimbabwe: Vaibhav Suryavanshi has become the youngest batsman in the world to score a half-century in T20 international cricket. Vaibhav achieved this feat against Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club on Thursday at the age of 15 years and 118 days.

Vaibhav played an inning of 50 runs in 19 balls with 4 sixes and as many fours. With this, Vaibhav broke the record of Gibraltar batsman Louis Bruce, who had scored a half-century against Malta in the year 2021 at the age of 16 years and 56 days. Kavin Chaddha is at the third position in this list, who achieved this feat against Sweden in the year 2026 while playing for Indonesia at the age of 16 years and 76 days.

Youngest half century scored

Alusin Touré of Sierra Leone is at fourth position in this list, who scored a half-century against Ghana in the year 2023 at the age of 16 years and 89 days. At the same time, Bhutan’s Tenzin Rabagi (16 years 118 days) is at fifth place in this list, who scored his first T20 international half-century against China in the year 2023.

Afghanistan’s Rahmanullah Gurbaz is second in the list of youngest batsmen to score a half-century for a full-member team, who did so against Zimbabwe in 2019. At that time Rahmanullah was 17 years and 296 days old.

Overtook Sachin Tendulkar

Vaibhav Suryavanshi made his international debut at the age of 15 years and 99 days, with which he became the youngest Indian in this matter, surpassing Sachin Tendulkar. ‘Master-Blaster’ Sachin Tendulkar played his first international match at the age of 16 years and 205 days. Shefali Verma (15 years and 239 days) is at the top among Indian women.

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Vaibhav Suryavanshi played his first international match on the England tour, in which he could score 14 runs. After this, he scored 13 and 15 runs in two other matches of the series, but on the Zimbabwe tour, Vaibhav finally forced the fans to dance with his brilliant innings.

-with agency input