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Vaibhav Suryavanshi (Pic credit: ACC)
NEW DELHI: India’s teen prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi continues to rewrite grounds books with each innings helium plays. On Friday successful Dubai, the 14-year-old opener unleashed 1 of the astir destructive knocks successful Youth ODI history, hammering a breathtaking 171 disconnected conscionable 95 balls against the United Arab Emirates successful the U-19 Asia Cup opener — an innings powered by 14 towering sixes, the astir ever struck successful a Youth ODI innings.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Walking successful aft UAE opted to field, Suryavanshi wasted nary clip asserting dominance. He stormed to a 30-ball fifty, reached his period successful 56 balls, and past accelerated into a antithetic magnitude altogether. The young left-hander tore done the UAE onslaught with effortless power, peppering the Dubai entity with 1 monstrous deed aft another.
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By the clip helium crossed 150 — successful lone 84 balls — Suryavanshi had already shattered 2 large Asian records.
He archetypal surpassed Afghanistan’s Darwish Rasooli’s people of 10 sixes successful an U-19 Asia Cup innings (set successful 2017), and soon aft broke Rasooli’s wide tourney grounds of 22 sixes. Suryavanshi’s tally present stands astatine 26, and the tourney is lone conscionable underway.His 171 is besides the second-highest people by an Indian successful U-19 ODIs, down lone Ambati Rayudu’s unbeaten 177 against England successful 2002.The six-hitting tempest didn’t halt astatine Asian records — Suryavanshi besides broke the planetary Youth ODI grounds for astir sixes successful an innings, surpassing Australian Michael Hill’s 12 against Namibia successful 2008.
The 14-year-old from Samastipur, Bihar, is present the archetypal subordinate successful Youth ODI past to transverse 50 vocation sixes, an astonishing feat fixed his age.
Most sixes successful a Youth ODI innings
- 14* – Vaibhav Sooryavanshi vs UAE, 2025
- 12 – Michael Hill vs Namibia , 2008
- 11 – Craig Simmons vs Kenya, 2002
- 10 – Shahzaib Khan vs India, 2024
Suryavanshi’s meteoric emergence has been arsenic breathtaking crossed formats. In the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy earlier this season, helium became the archetypal teen ever to registry 3 T20 centuries, and helium precocious smashed a 32-ball 100 for India A successful Qatar.
