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Rajasthan Royals (RR) prodigy Vaibhav Sooryavanshi surpassed West Indies fable Chris Gayle for astir sixes successful a azygous Indian Premier League (IPL) variation and successful a T20 tournament.
Sooryavanshi achieved this milestone during his side’s IPL eliminator lucifer against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), slamming a stormy 97 successful conscionable 29 balls, with 5 fours and 12 monolithic sixes. His runs came astatine a onslaught complaint of 334.48.
Sooryavanshi has smashed 65 sixes truthful acold successful the ongoing IPL season, outdoing Gayle’s tally of 59 sixes successful the 2012 edition.
Sooryavanshi has besides levelled with Gayle for astir instances of hitting 10-plus sixes successful an IPL innings, a full of 4 times. Three of these occasions person travel this season, making him the archetypal batter to deed 10-plus sixes successful 3 IPL innings successful a season.
The 15-year-old’s instrumentality down of cricket legends 1 by 1 continues arsenic helium besides surpassed Sri Lankan fable Sanath Jayasuriya’s tally of 7 powerplay sixes during the IPL 2008 clash betwixt Mumbai Indians (MI) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK), with 8 sixes successful the powerplay astatine Mullanpur.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, left, returns to the dugout aft his dismissal arsenic players and unit successful the dugout applaud him | Photo Credit: PTI
Sooryavanshi is the batter with the astir runs coming successful the powerplay during an IPL season, with 490 runs, overtaking Australian fable David Warner, who scored 467 runs for SRH successful the 2016 edition.
This is besides his 5th fifty-plus people successful the powerfulness play successful IPL, with lone Warner (six specified scores) up of him.
He has besides joined Suresh Raina (87 against Punjab Kings successful 2014) and Adam Gilchrist (74 against Delhi Daredevils successful 2009) for fifty-plus scores made during powerplay successful an IPL knockout/playoff match.
This is Sooryavanshi’s 5th 50 successful little than 20 balls, with lone Abhishek Sharma (six) supra him.
Sooryavanshi establishes caller IPL playoff records
The 15-year-old’s 16-ball half-century tied with Raina’s 16-ball 50 (against PBKS successful 2014) for the joint-fastest 50 successful an IPL knockout/playoff match.
Twelve sixes smashed by him are besides the astir successful an innings by a batter successful IPL knockouts/playoffs, outdoing Shubman Gill’s 10 sixes against the Mumbai Indians (MI) successful 2023. Sooryavanshi has the astir sixes successful an IPL inning by an Indian arsenic well.
Ninety-seven runs by Sooryavanshi is the second-highest idiosyncratic people for RR successful an IPL knockouts/Playoffs game, down 106* runs by Jos Buttler against RCB successful the qualifier 2 of IPL 2022.
A generational IPL season
In this season, Sooryavanshi has smashed 680 runs successful 15 innings astatine an mean of 45.33 and a onslaught complaint of 242.85, including a period and 4 fifties, with a champion people of 103. He has smashed 55 fours and 65 sixes successful 280 balls faced. His balls per bound changeable ratio is 2.3, and balls per six ratio is 4.3.
This is the astir runs an uncapped batter has scored successful an IPL season, overtaking his opening spouse Yashasvi Jaiswal’s tally of 625 runs successful the 2023 season. Also, helium is the youngest to implicit 600 runs successful an IPL season.
Before the left-handed sensation arrived to the scene, nary different batter successful T20 past had smashed 600+ runs successful a T20 tourney portion besides striking astatine 200-plus.
