Vaibhav Suryavanshi was 14 years and 32 days old when he walked out to open the batting for Rajasthan Royals against Gujarat Titans in Jaipur on 28 April 2025. What followed stunned world cricket. He smashed 101 runs off just 38 balls and became the youngest batter to score a century in IPL history, breaking…
Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s IPL story began before he was old enough to drive a car. Signed by Rajasthan Royals for INR 1.10 crore in the IPL 2025 mega auction at just 13, he became the youngest player ever to receive an IPL contract. Nine days after making his debut at 14 years and 23 days, the…
Strike rate is the number that shows how fast a batter scores in T20 cricket. A high strike rate across one full season is one of the hardest things to achieve in the IPL, because it means the batter attacked almost every ball he faced for two months. The record for the highest strike rate…
Vaibhav Suryavanshi holds the highest batting strike rate in IPL history. The Rajasthan Royals opener scores at 228.95 runs for every 100 balls faced. That is more than two runs a ball across 1,028 career runs, and no other batter with 500 or more IPL runs comes close. For many years, Andre Russell was the…
Our IPL 2026 report card is here after a season that ended with Royal Challengers Bengaluru lifting the trophy for the second year in a row. RCB beat Gujarat Titans by 5 wickets in the final at Ahmedabad on 31 May 2026 to complete back to back titles, and they also topped the points table…
The record for the highest strike rate by a teenager in an IPL season belongs to Vaibhav Suryavanshi of the Rajasthan Royals. In IPL 2026, at the age of 15, he scored 776 runs at a strike rate of 237.30. That is not just the best scoring speed by any teenager the league has seen….
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