Rajasthan Royals’ schoolboy prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi turns into youngest T20 centurion after scoring a surprising 35-ball 100 in opposition to Gujarat Titans within the IPL.
Fourteen-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi turned the youngest centurion in males’s Twenty20 cricket as he guided Rajasthan Royals to an eight-wicket victory over the Gujarat Titans in an Indian Premier League match in Jaipur.
Suryavanshi doled out extreme punishment to Gujarat’s bowling assault on Monday, hitting 11 sixes and 7 fours in his 101 off 38 balls, because the hosts chased down a 209-run goal in 15.5 overs.
The left-hander reached his 100 in 35 balls to register the second-fastest century in IPL historical past, whereas combining with Yashasvi Jaiswal in a 166-run opening partnership.
“It’s a superb feeling. It’s my first hundred within the IPL and it’s my third innings. The outcome has proven right here after the apply earlier than the match,” the participant of the match, Suryavanshi, mentioned.
“I simply see the ball and play. It has been a dream to get a 100 within the IPL, and at this time, it materialised. There is no such thing as a worry. I don’t assume a lot, I simply deal with taking part in.”
Suryavanshi’s century was additionally the quickest by an Indian within the IPL, bettering Yusuf Pathan’s 37-ball effort for Rajasthan in opposition to the Mumbai Indians in 2010.
“Many congratulations to younger Vaibhav Suryavanshi for breaking my file of the quickest IPL hundred by an Indian,” Pathan wrote on social media.
“Much more particular to see it occur whereas taking part in for Rajasthan Royals, identical to I did.”
Suryavanshi grabbed headlines when he turned the youngest participant to earn a contract within the profitable IPL on the age of 13, earlier than making his debut this month and asserting himself in model with a six off the primary ball he confronted.
He performed within the home Ranji Trophy red-ball competitors aged 12 final 12 months and has represented India’s Underneath-19 facet in opposition to Australia, scoring a 58-ball century.
Suryavanshi additionally made a triple hundred in an area match in his residence state of Bihar.
Rajasthan are eighth within the IPL standings, with the win over Gujarat snapping a five-game dropping run for the 2008 champions.
