The first IPL champions Rajasthan Royals have been waiting for their second title in the IPL all these seasons. Under the leadership of the new captain, the Royals and their youngest player Vaibhav Suryavanshi have declared themselves the champions of IPL 2026.
Rajasthan Royals has managed to win only one IPL, which was in the inaugural season of the IPL in 2008. Since then, they have played in only one other IPL final in 2022, when the Sanju Samson-led side lost to Gujarat Titans.
Young player Vaibhav Suryavanshi was last included in the playing eleven of Rajasthan Royals. At the age of 13, he became the youngest cricketer to be a part of the RR playing eleven in the IPL. After this he became the youngest centurion of IPL.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi declares Rajasthan Royals as champions of IPL 2026
Ahead of the start of IPL 2026, Rajasthan Royals management and their youngest cricketer Vaibhav Suryavanshi has declared themselves the champions of the upcoming season of IPL.
In a promotional video ahead of IPL 2026, the Royals team showed Vaibhav Suryavanshi mimicking Ranveer Singh’s famous scene from the Bollywood film Dhurandhar, where he writes down his goals in a secret diary.
Suryavanshi is seen celebrating his achieved goals like IPL century and U19 World Cup while he writes down the next goal as an IPL trophy. Suryavanshi’s form has been excellent in all formats of white-ball cricket.
– Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) 16 March 2026
Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s dream debut in IPL 2025
Vaibhav Suryavanshi did not get a chance in the first half of the tournament for Rajasthan Royals. The Rahul Dravid-led team surprisingly picked the young cricketer from Bihar as a supreme talent who will shape the future of Rajasthan Royals and Indian cricket.
Suryavanshi played 7 matches for the Royals and scored 252 runs for them with a strike rate of over 200. He scored at an average of 36 in the tournament and scored a century in his debut season. As a 13-year-old cricketer, he is the youngest player to score a century.
He scored a half-century and a century, which became the second fastest century in the IPL against Gujarat Titans in just 35 balls.
Suryavanshi’s brilliant performance for India in U19 Asia Cup and World Cup
The 14-year-old cricketer became the youngest cricketer to participate in the ICC U19 World Cup as he was a part of the 2026 ICC Men’s U19 World Cup. The Indian opening batsman scored 439 runs for India in 7 innings at an average of 62.71.
What made him different from others was his excellent strike rate of 169.50. He finished as the second-highest run-scorer in the tournament and led India to another U19 World Cup victory.
His record-breaking innings came in the final, when he scored 175 runs off just 80 balls in the final of the competition. He also broke the record of most sixes in a single edition of the Under-19 World Cup.
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