{"id":13466,"date":"2026-05-28T04:11:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/vaibhav-sooryavanshi-scripts-history-breaks-chris-gayles-14-year-old-ipl-record-to-become-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T04:11:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:41:25","slug":"vaibhav-sooryavanshi-scripts-history-breaks-chris-gayles-14-year-old-ipl-record-to-become-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/vaibhav-sooryavanshi-scripts-history-breaks-chris-gayles-14-year-old-ipl-record-to-become-cricket-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scripts history, breaks Chris Gayle\u2019s 14-year-old IPL record to become&#8230; | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131353095,imgsize-132640,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/rajasthan-hands-punjab-its-first-defeat-in-indian-premier-league.jpg\" alt=\"Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scripts history, breaks Chris Gayle\u2019s 14-year-old IPL record to become...\" title=\"Rajasthan Royals' Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (AP Photo)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Rajasthan Royals' Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (AP Photo)\">Rajasthan Royals&#8217; Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (AP Photo)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fifteen-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi continues to rewrite IPL history with a season for the ages. The <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rajasthan-royals\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Rajasthan Royals<\/a> opener shattered a 14-year-old record held by <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/chris-gayle\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Chris Gayle<\/a> during the IPL 2026 Eliminator clash against Sunrisers Hyderabad in New Chandigarh.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/> Playing in the biggest match of <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rajasthan\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Rajasthan<\/a>\u2019s season, Sooryavanshi once again produced a breathtaking display of fearless batting. The teenage sensation raced to his half-century in just 16 balls and, in the process, became the batter with the most sixes ever recorded in a single IPL season.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/> <span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Most sixes in an IPL season:<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/> <\/p>\n<div class=\"cdatainfo   id-r-component \" data-pos=\"15\">\n<ul>\n<li> 61* &#8211; <keyword id=\"20801029\" type=\"TOPIC\" weightage=\"20\" keywordseo=\"Vaibhav\" source=\"TOPIC\" sourcekeytype=\"Celebrity\" meta.keywordsubtype=\"cinema-entertainment\" meta.msid=\"99562140\" meta.seopath=\"(cinema-entertainment\/vaibhav)\" meta.entityname=\"Vaibhav\" meta.hostid=\"83\" meta.entityid=\"vaibhav\" solralias.seotitle=\"vaibhav\" solralias.msid=\"99562140\" solralias.title=\"Vaibhav\">Vaibhav<\/keyword> Sooryavanshi (2026) <\/li>\n<li> 59 &#8211; Chris Gayle (2012) <\/li>\n<li> 52 &#8211; Andre Russell (2019) <\/li>\n<li> 51 &#8211; Chris Gayle (2013) <\/li>\n<li> 45 &#8211; Jos Buttler (2022) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p> The record had stood untouched since Gayle\u2019s iconic 2012 campaign, but Sooryavanshi has now surpassed the legendary power-hitter at just 15 years of age.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/> The milestone-filled knock did not stop there. Sooryavanshi also became the youngest player ever to complete 600 runs in a single IPL season, breaking the previous record held by <!-- -->Rishabh Pant<!-- -->, who achieved the feat for Delhi Daredevils in 2018.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/> Even more remarkably, before IPL 2026, no batter in tournament history had scored 550 or more runs in a season at a strike rate above 200. Sooryavanshi has now become the first player to achieve that extraordinary combination of volume and explosiveness.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/> The historic innings came in a high-pressure Eliminator at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium after SRH captain <!-- -->Pat Cummins<!-- --> won the toss and chose to bowl first.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/>While Rajasthan entered the contest under pressure after losing twice to Hyderabad earlier in the season, Sooryavanshi showed no signs of nerves, taking apart the SRH attack from the very beginning.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"32\"\/> The knock further cemented his status as the breakout superstar of IPL 2026 and one of the most extraordinary teenage talents the tournament has ever witnessed.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"34\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026\/vaibhav-sooryavanshi-scripts-history-breaks-chris-gayles-14-year-old-ipl-record-to-hit-most-sixes-in-a-single-season\/articleshow\/131353114.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan Royals&#8217; Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (AP Photo) Fifteen-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi continues to rewrite IPL history with a season for the ages. The Rajasthan Royals opener shattered a 14-year-old record held by Chris Gayle during the IPL 2026 Eliminator clash against Sunrisers Hyderabad in New Chandigarh. Playing in the biggest match of Rajasthan\u2019s season, Sooryavanshi once again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}