Vaibhav Sooryavanshi vs Jasprit Bumrah: RR sensation surpasses Gayle, Warner, Buttler, Iyer in six-hitting feat
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Jasprit Bumrah is probably one of the finest pace bowling spearheads in T20s. However, his excellence was not taken into account as Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, the Rajasthan Royals wonderkid, smashed him for a record number of sixes in their first-ever encounter.
An encounter between a giant of the game and a talent whom the world has bowed down to. Probably the Jasprit Bumrah vs Vaibhav Sooryavanshi face-off would be one of the most iconic moments in this year's TATA IPL. However, the RR opener nailed it to perfection against the most fierce T20I pacer in the world.
The Rajasthan Royals and the Mumbai Indians played their third game of the season in a rain-hit ACA Stadium in Guwahati. The Royals' opening pair wreaked havoc as the match was reduced to 11 overs, and sixes were the only thing that could be seen during the powerplay.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi takes down Jasprit Bumrah with a colossal six on their first-ever encounter
The Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals match was a crucial game for both teams, especially for Mumbai, which had its skipper returning for them following the previous game, which his team lost in his absence.
However, the anticipation was largely built around young Vaibhav Sooryavanshi facing off with premier Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah. While Bumrah has been a nightmare for world-class batters, Sooryavanshi has got a similar reputation for bowlers in recent times.
However, the scenes were just not what anybody, as well as Bumrah, would have dreamt of. The very first ball against the world's greatest pacer, and the left-hander just smashed it over the mid-wicket fence, and the ball went sailing right back, miles into the stands.
That was young Sooryavanshi welcoming the great pacer; however, he showed some respect, turning his next ball off for a single. He then returned to strike and smacked the fourth ball again for another colossal six over the square leg boundary.
15-year-old Sooryavanshi's new record against the MI pacer
The first-ever face-off between two generations of unique Indian talent, and what a moment it was. It ended with Sooryavanshi taking the early lead over the premier bowler with a 2-0 margin, as he hit two sixes off him, but Bumrah did not manage to dismiss him.
However, with two sixes, young Sooryavanshi now has a unique record in the IPL against Jasprit Bumrah and has left behind several greats of the game. Bumrah is known to have the reputation of having conceded the least number of sixes as compared to bowlers in a T20 game; his economical spells are proof of that.
Now this young lad from the Rajasthan Royals has more sixes against the MI pacer than the likes of great players like David Warner, Chris Gayle, Jos Buttler, Mitchell Marsh, Shikhar Dhawan, Shane Watson, Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Travis Head, and many more.
15yrs old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi now has more 6s against Jasprit Bumrah in IPL than
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Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's IPL numbers
Young Sooryavanshi started off IPL 2026 with some promising numbers from the last season and some astonishing glory in the ICC U19 Men's World Cup. He had managed to score 250+ runs across 7 innings in 2025 in his debut IPL season.
The batter came to the limelight after some blistering knocks, including the second-fastest IPL fifty and the fastest by an Indian, just at the age of 14. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's 2026 campaign started off with a quickfire half-century off just 15 balls against the Chennai Super Kings.
He has continued his saga of sheer domination, as Sooryavanshi managed to put on two more 30+ scores in the next two games, and he has been striking at nearly 248.98, scoring 122 runs after 3 innings.
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