Rajasthan Royals (RR) opener Vaibhav Sooryavanshi continued his rock-solid form in IPL 2026 during his team’s match against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in Jaipur on Sunday.
The teenager scored a century short of just 36 deliveries against Sunrisers Hyderabad. He was eventually dismissed for 103 runs off 37 balls as Rajasthan Royals posted 228/6 from 20 overs.
However, this total was not enough as Pat Cummins and Co chased him down in 18.3 overs and five more wickets.
SRH’s Ishan Kishan had a chat with Vaibhav Sooryavanshi after the match and later Kishan revealed the details of the conversation.
What Ishan Kishan said to Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
The wicketkeeper said that he is aware of the talent that Vaibhav has and asked to go easy on SRH.
“I was just telling him about the craziness with which he is batting and how he is batting. Sometimes you even dread to think what the scorecard might look like if he stayed on for a few more overs. So it was important for us to get his wicket. It was 228, it could have been 258,” Ishan Kishan said on JichHotstar Live.
Rajasthan Royals were 170/3 in the 14th over once Vaibhav was dismissed and further slumped to 191/4 in the 17th over. “Cricket is all about comebacks. We got him out and back in there a bit. That’s what I said to him: ‘When I play against you, please take it easy in my team. I know all your secrets and inside stories’,” added the 27-year-old.
In SRH’s reply, Ishan Kishan played a stellar knock of 74 runs off 31 deliveries as he guided his team to an important win.
Kishan was adjudged Man of the Match for his heroics as his knock clearly eclipsed Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s hard-fought century.
It was Kishan’s third half-century of the season after scoring 80 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and 91 against Rajasthan Royals in the previous match of the season in Hyderabad.
The 15-year-old from Bihar, on the other hand, is in the form of his life. He has amassed 357 runs at a strike rate of 234.86 in eight matches and is already being touted as India’s next batting sensation.
He came into IPL 2025, scored 252 runs from seven matches (one fifty and one century) and hasn’t looked back since.
