BCCI will do everything to get Sooryavanshi to highest level of cricket, says Secretary Saikia

BCCI Secretary Devajit Saikia congratulated Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) for their consecutive IPL titles pursuing their five-wicket triumph implicit Gujarat Titans (GT) successful the 2026 final successful Ahmedabad.

The BCCI Secretary besides praised teenage sensation 15-year-old teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi for his exceptional performances passim the season.

The 15-year-old Bihar-born batter had an bonzer tourney for Rajasthan Royals, finishing arsenic the highest run-scorer with 776 runs astatine an exceptional onslaught complaint of 237.30.

At conscionable 15 years and 65 days old, Sooryavanshi besides acceptable a caller IPL grounds arsenic the youngest Orange Cap winner. The erstwhile grounds was held by Gujarat Titans opener Sudharsan, who won it astatine 23 years and 231 days successful 2025, portion Shubman Gill had acceptable the grounds successful 2023 astatine 23 years and 263 days.

Speaking to reporters, Saikia said, “It was a fantastic season... I anticipation each the fans person a beauteous clip during this IPL, and congratulations to RCB for winning the tourney consecutively twice. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is simply a fantastic subordinate coming up, and helium has a agleam future. BCCI volition bash everything to get him to the highest level of cricket...”

Additionally, connected the upcoming ICC Women’s T20 World Cup aboriginal this month, the BCCI Secretary said, “That is the astir challenging happening coming up successful the coming days. They (Women successful Blue) are already doing well... and I anticipation they volition repetition the aforesaid show they did past twelvemonth by winning the ODI title.”

BJP MP Anurag Thakur besides congratulated the Rajat Patidar-led Bengaluru for winning the expansive finale against the Titans connected Sunday (May 31, 2026) night.

Speaking to reporters, Thakur said, “I congratulate RCB for winning the IPL for the 2nd consecutive time. The lucifer was happening successful Ahmedabad, but galore RCB fans had travel to ticker the match. This was a large triumph successful cricket... IPL is the biggest league of cricket. This is simply a precise large accomplishment of BCCI.”

Coming to the IPL 2026 final, Put to bat archetypal by RCB, GT scored conscionable 155/8 successful 20 overs, with Washington Sundar (50* successful 37 balls, with 5 fours) and Nishant Sindhu (20 successful 18 balls, with 3 fours) being the lone ones to transverse the 20-run mark. Rasikh Dar Salam (3/27), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (2/29) and Josh Hazlewood (2/37) took wickets regularly.

RCB started good with a 62-run basal betwixt Venkatesh Iyer (32 successful 16 balls, with 4 boundaries and 2 sixes) and Virat Kohli. GT showed immoderate fight, reducing RCB to 132/5 astatine 1 point, but Virat (75* successful 42 balls, with 9 fours and 3 sixes) guided RCB to a triumph with 2 overs left.

This is RCB’s 2nd IPL rubric triumph and wide their 4th Indian franchise cricket trophy, including 2 Women’s Premier League (WPL) titles.