The wonder kid Vabihav Sooryavanshi is in a beast mode in IPL 2026
The 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi became the youngest player in men’s T20 cricket to reach 1,000 runs, and did so faster than anyone before him – getting there in just 473 balls, eclipsing the previous benchmark set by Mitchell Owen (533 balls) during in whirlwind century knock against Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2026.The teenager hammered a breathtaking 36-ball century in IPL 2026- now the third-fastest hundred in league history, behind only Chris Gayle’s iconic 30-ball blitz and his own 35-ball effort from last season.That innings was a statistical storm in itself. Sooryavanshi smashed 12 sixes, the most by an Indian in a single IPL innings, going past the previous mark of 11 jointly held by Murali Vijay and himself. Across IPL history, only a handful of innings have featured more maximums.He is now among a select group of players alongside Abhishek Sharma with multiple IPL knocks featuring 10 or more sixes, while also becoming the first batter to score more than one IPL hundred in under 40 balls.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi Major Milestones
- Youngest player in men’s T20 history to reach 1,000 runs (age 15)
- Fastest to 1,000 T20 runs (by balls faced) – 473 balls (previous: Mitchell Owen – 533)
- Reached 1,000 runs in 26 innings (among the fastest ever)
- Only batter among 1000+ T20-run scorers with a 200+ strike 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 that mark in men’s cricket, surpassing Pakistan’s Usman Khan.
- In the IPL alone, he has reached two hundreds in just 15 innings, quicker than even Gayle or Hashim Amla managed.
36-ball hundred – third-fastest in IPL history – Only behind 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 (surpassing Murali Vijay)
- Multiple 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 only a handful of players with three T20 centuries under 40 balls
