In the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 eliminator, between Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Rajasthan Royals (RR), Vaibhav Suryavanshi created complete havoc. The teenage sensation is making waves in IPL 2026. He has been brutal against the Orange Army, with the bowlers smashing them all around the park. The Orange Army bowlers have no answer to his brutal hitting.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi created a record while batting tonight as he became the first batsman to score 600+ runs in a single season with a strike rate of 200+ in a T20 tournament. He is striking at 320+ against Sunrisers Hyderabad tonight. The 15 year old boy started hitting hard from the very first over. He is playing with the bowlers.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi goes aggressive against SRH
Vaibhav Suryavanshi is batting tonight after scoring 59 runs in 19 balls and so far he has hit eight sixes and two fours in his innings. He completed his half-century by hitting a sensational six in 16 balls against Shakib Hussain. The southpaw has given the start to the Royals in the match and will look to continue his range-hitting tonight as well.
The teenage sensation has so far scored 642 runs in the tournament at an average of 45.86 with four half-centuries and one century. Tonight, he scored 22 runs by hitting a boundary in the second over of Pat Cummins, taking the score to 25 in that over. He is not going to slow down as RR have scored 80/0 inside the power play.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi broke Chris Gayle’s six records
Vaibhav had hit 53 sixes in 14 innings before this game; He was seven sixes away from breaking Chris Gayle’s record of hitting most sixes in an IPL season. He broke the record against Shakib tonight by hitting his 60th six in 3.5 overs of the match.
Chris Gayle took a total of 456 balls for those 59 sixes; However, the youngest player at 15 took just 263 balls to break the Universe Boss’ record. He hit 12 sixes in the innings and ended the innings with 97 runs in 29 balls and Prafulla Hinge took the wicket of Smaran Ravichandran by taking the catch.
Rajasthan Royals are in a great position after the completion of 9 overs, with the score at 129/1, and Yashasvi Jaiswal and Dhruv Jurel would like to continue the momentum created by Vaibhav from the start of the innings and put him in the driver’s seat. The southpaw scored 29 runs against Hinge in the over before being dismissed.
Sunrisers Hyderabad will be trying to make a comeback after the defeat across the field. Pat Cummins and his boys also have firepower in their batting
Many more to follow…
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