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In the Eliminator of the TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026, between the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and the Rajasthan Royals (RR), Vaibhav Sooryavanshi went to absolute mayhem. The teenage sensation has been rocking the IPL 2026. He has been brutal against the Orange Army, bowlers smashing them all around the park. The Orange Army bowlers have no answer to his brutal hitting.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi created a record tonight while batting as he became the first batter to have a strike rate of 200+ in a T20 tournament while scoring 600+ runs in a single season. He is striking at 320+ tonight against Sunrisers Hyderabad. The 15-year-old boy wonder started his carnage, hitting from the very first over. He has been toying with the bowlers.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi goes berserk against SRH
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is batting on 59 off 19 deliveries tonight and has smacked eight sixes and two fours in his innings so far. He brought up his fifty with a sensational six against Sakib Hussain off 16 deliveries. The Southpaw has given the Royals the start in the match and will look to continue his range-hitting tonight as well.
The teenage sensation has scored 642 runs so far with an average of 45.86, with four half-centuries and one hundred in the tournament. Tonight, he scored 22 runs in boundaries against Pat Cummins’ second over, smashing him for 25 runs in that over. He is not going to slow down as RR have scored 80/0 inside the power play.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi breaks Chris Gayle's six record
Vaibhav, ahead of this game, had struck 53 sixes from 14 innings; he was seven sixes away from breaking Chris Gayle’s record for striking the most sixes in a single season of the IPL. He has surpassed the record tonight in the 3.5 overs of the match against Sakib, where he struck the 60th six.
Chris Gayle took a total of 456 balls for those 59 sixes; however, the 15-year-old youngest has just taken 263 balls to break the record of Universe Boss. He struck 12 sixes in the innings, and the innings of 97 runs off 29 deliveries came to an end, and Praful Hinge picked the wicket with Smaran Ravichandran taking the catch.
Royals are on the driver's seat
The Rajasthan Royals are at a fantastic stage after the end of 9 overs, with the score being 129/1, and Yashasvi Jaiswal and Dhruv Jurel would like to carry on the momentum created by Vaibhav from the start of the innings and put them in the driver’s seat. Before getting out, the Southpaw smacked 29 runs against Hinge in the over.
Sunrisers Hyderabad will be looking for a comeback after being smacked all over the park. Pat Cummins and his boys do have the firepower in their batting as well, with the kind of pitch, the Orange Army batters will also look to go berserk on the night.
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