Prodigy Vabihav Sooryavanshi is in beast mode in IPL 2026
15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi became the youngest player in men’s T20 cricket to reach 1,000 runs and did it faster than anyone before him – getting there in just 473 balls, surpassing the previous benchmark set by Mitchell Owen (533 balls) during a blistering century in the Hybridabad 2PL knockout at Sunrisers 26.The teenager hit a breathtaking 36-ball century in IPL 2026 – now the third-fastest hundred in the league’s history, behind only Chris Gayle’s iconic 30-ball blitz and his own 35-ball effort from last season.That innings was a statistical firestorm in itself. Sooryavanshi smashed 12 sixes, the most by an Indian in a single IPL innings, surpassing the previous mark of 11 jointly held by Murali Vijay and himself. In the history of the IPL, only a handful of innings have contained more maximums.He is now among a select group of players alongside Abhishek Sharma with multiple IPL knocks of 10 or more sixes while also becoming the first batsman to score more than one IPL hundred in under 40 balls.
Major milestones of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
- Youngest player in men’s T20 history to reach 1,000 runs (15 years)
- Fastest to 1000 T20 runs (by balls vs balls) – 473 balls (Prev: Mitchell Owen – 533)
- Reached 1,000 runs in 26 innings (among the fastest ever)
- Only batsman among 1000+ T20-run scores with 200+ success rate (over 212)
- He needed just 15 innings to hit 50 IPL sixes, breaking Gayle’s long-standing record (21 innings).
- Also fastest to 50 IPL sixes by balls faced
- His tally of four T20 centuries in just 26 innings makes him the fastest to the mark in men’s cricket, surpassing Pakistan’s Usman Khan.
- In the IPL alone, he reached two hundreds in just 15 innings, faster than even Gayle or Hashim Amla managed.
36-ball hundred – third fastest in IPL history – behind only Chris Gayle (30 balls) and his own 35-ball ton - Only player with multiple IPL hundreds under 40 balls
- 2 IPL hundreds in just 15 innings – fastest in league history
- 4 T20 hundreds in 26 innings – fastest to four centuries in men’s T20s (ahead of Usman Khan – 33 innings)
- 12 sixes in an IPL innings – most by an Indian (surpassed by Murali Vijay)
- Most IPL innings with 10+ sixes (elite list including Chris Gayle and Abhishek Sharma)
- 4 sixes in the first over of an IPL innings – first ever instance
- One of the few players with three T20 centuries under 40 balls
