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Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (ANI Photo)
NEW DELHI: Teen sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi connected Tuesday continued his bonzer emergence successful IPL 2026 by becoming the archetypal Indian batter successful tourney past to smash 50 sixes successful a azygous season.
The 15-year-old achieved the landmark during a breathtaking innings for Rajasthan Royals against Lucknow Super Giants astatine the Sawai Mansingh Stadium successful Jaipur.
Sooryavanshi’s explosive 93 disconnected conscionable 38 balls lit up the contention arsenic the youngster tore isolated the LSG bowling onslaught with fearless strokeplay. His innings included 7 fours and 10 towering sixes astatine a staggering onslaught complaint of 244.74 earlier helium narrowly missed retired connected a sensational century.The young batter present sits 2nd connected the all-time database for astir sixes successful a azygous IPL play with 53 maximums, trailing lone Chris Gayle’s iconic 59 sixes from the 2012 season. He has already gone past power-hitters similar Andre Russell, Jos Buttler and Abhishek Sharma, underlining the standard of his accomplishment astatine specified a young age.
Most sixes successful an IPL season
- 59 - Chris Gayle (2012)
- 53* - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (2026)
- 52 - Andre Russell (2019)
- 51 - Chris Gayle (2013)
- 45 - Jos Buttler (2022)
- 44 - Chris Gayle (2011)
- 42 - Abhishek Sharma (2024)
Sooryavanshi’s innings came during a tense pursuit aft LSG piled up a daunting 220/5, powered by a brutal 96 from Mitchell Marsh and a accelerated 60 from Josh Inglis.
Rajasthan needed a beardown effect successful a must-win brushwood to support their playoff hopes alive, and the teen delivered immediately.After Yashasvi Jaiswal’s quick-fire 43 helped Rajasthan contention to 75 wrong 7 overs, Sooryavanshi wholly shifted gears.
Highest strike-rate successful an IPL play (min 500+ runs)
- 236.3 - Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (2026)*
- 204.8 - Andre Russell (2019)
- 202.0 - Abhishek Sharma (2026)
- 196.2 - Nicholas Pooran (2025)
- 191.5 - Travis Head (2024)
- 187.7 - Glenn Maxwell (2014)
- 183.1 - Chris Gayle (2011)
He dominated some gait and spin, hammering boundaries each astir the crushed and bringing the Jaipur assemblage to its feet repeatedly.His stunning sound yet ended successful the 14th implicit erstwhile Mohsin Khan deceived him with a slower delivery. Attempting different large hit, Sooryavanshi mistimed the changeable and was caught by Abdul Samad astatine long-on.Despite missing a deserved hundred, the innings further confirmed Sooryavanshi’s presumption arsenic 1 of the brightest young stars Indian cricket has seen successful caller years.
