He is too good, isn’t he? It would be fair to say that Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is putting more bums on seats in the stadiums and in front of the television sets than any other youngster in world cricket right now.
Ever since he was picked in the IPL auction a couple of years ago, Sooryavanshi has attracted eyeballs. Now, fortunately, it’s his batting that is being spoken about a lot more than his tender age.
Playing alongside the heavyweights of world cricket in the IPL 2026, Sooryavanshi took the tournament by storm this year, producing such enchanting hitting never seen before by a teenager. His backlift is being compared to Brian Lara’s, his prodigious talent to Sachin Tendulkar’s, his future stardom to Virat Kohli’s, and his monstrous hitting to Chris Gayle’s.
A record-breaking IPL 2026 season earned Vaibhav Sooryavanshi a place in India’s T20I squad for the UK and Zimbabwe tours. It was so difficult to deny Sooryavanshi a T20I debut that Gautam Gambhir and Shreyas Iyer even benched Sanju Samson, the Player of the Tournament in the T20 World Cup a few months ago.
After three brief outings in England, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi unleashed himself on the Zimbabwean bowlers in the recently concluded three-T20I series, earning the Player of the Series award.
The 15-year-old has broken several records in both List-A cricket and T20 cricket, including a few in international cricket already. Let us check out the most prominent of them.
Top 10 Records Achieved By Vaibhav Sooryavanshi So Far In His Career
- Youngest cricketer to win Man of the Series award in international cricket (15 years 121 days) (India vs Zimbabwe 2026)
- Youngest cricketer to hit a fifty in men’s international cricket (15 years 118 days) (18 balls vs Zimbabwe 2026)
- Most sixes in a single T20 tournament and most sixes in a single IPL season (72 sixes in IPL 2026)
- Fastest batsman to 1000 runs in IPL (440 balls)
- Fastest and youngest batsman to score 1000 runs in T20 cricket (473 balls)
- Youngest to score a hundred in List-A cricket (14 years 272 days) (Bihar vs Arunachal Pradesh, Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26)
- Fastest fifty in List-A cricket (11 balls) (India A vs Sri Lanka A Tri-Series final 2026)
- Fastest to hit 100 sixes in T20 cricket (514 balls)
- Youngest to score a fifty and century in men’s T20s and IPL (14 years 32 days) (Rajasthan Royals vs Gujarat Titans, IPL 2025)
- Second-fastest century in IPL (35 balls vs GT, 2025)
How many IPL centuries has Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scored?
In two IPL seasons for RR, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has hit two IPL centuries and six fifties, which includes three scores in the 90s.
How many sixes Vaibhav Sooryavanshi hit in IPL 2026?
Sooryavanshi broke Gayle’s record of 59 sixes from 2012, hitting 72 sixes in IPL 2026.
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