{"id":698874,"date":"2026-05-27T23:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/698874\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T23:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:56:13","slug":"vaibhav-suryavanshi-15-year-old-prodigy-smashes-97-off-29-balls-to-eliminate-pat-cummins-sunrisers-hyderabad-from-ipl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/698874\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaibhav Suryavanshi: 15-year-old prodigy smashes 97 off 29 balls to eliminate Pat Cummins\u2019 Sunrisers Hyderabad from IPL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pat Cummins was torn apart by 15-year-old Indian prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi<\/a> as the Rajasthan Royals eliminated the Sunrisers Hyderabad from the finals of the Indian Premier League.<\/p>\n

Batting first, Suryavanshi hammered 97 from a mere 29 balls with 12 sixes. Thirty-one of his runs came from Cummins, who was left with the ugly figures of 0-64 from his four overs.<\/p>\n

\"TeenTeen prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi celebrates his 50 in the IPL clash against the Sunrisers.AP Photo<\/p>\n

Cummins went into the game with a plan to try to keep Suryavanshi quiet with yorkers, but after the left-hander navigated the first couple, Cummins was unable to keep landing the ball in the blockhole and the sixes started to flow.<\/p>\n

In all, Suryavanshi struck four of his 12 sixes from Cummins\u2019 bowling, leaving the Sunrisers captain sounding somewhat stunned post-game. Earlier in the tournament, Cummins had lavished Suryavanshi with praise, calling him his \u201cnew favourite player\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, he played pretty well, don\u2019t feel like you have too many options,\u201d Cummins said after the match.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, it\u2019s a really good pitch, but the margins are so small you know. You miss your yorker by a little bit, he doesn\u2019t tend to miss them. So yeah, fair play.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Rajasthan Royals, coached by Kumar Sangakkara, have seemingly struck the right balance in managing Suryavanshi, giving him plenty of room to practice and not filling his head with too many conflicting ideas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the thing, we don\u2019t have any conversations,\u201d captain Riyan Parag said at the presentation. \u201cYeah just leave him alone, let him go and have fun. He likes batting like I\u2019ve said before so we get him a lot of batting practice at the nets and stuff like that and then he goes out and does his thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cummins will now travel home for rest and pre-season work ahead of a gruelling Test calendar over the next 12 months<\/a>, starting with two Tests against Bangladesh in northern Australia in August.<\/p>\n

With the 12 sixes he struck overnight, Suryavanshi surpassed Chris Gayle\u2019s 14-year-old record for the most sixes in a single IPL tournament, with 65 to Gayle\u2019s 59. Suryavanshi has done it in just 266 balls, whereas Gayle took 456.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t seen him do too many interviews at games, either pre- or post-match, unless he\u2019s won an award,\u201d Aaron Finch said earlier in the tournament.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I haven\u2019t seen him exposed too much in that regard, and that\u2019s a huge tick to the Royals for really managing him well and almost treating him like a kid up to a point. But the hype is real with him, he\u2019s a seriously good player.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sunrisers have themselves been known for high scoring under Cummins\u2019 captaincy, but their chase for a distant 244 was wrecked by England\u2019s Jofra Archer.<\/p>\n

Bowling at high pace, Archer clean bowled Cummins\u2019 Test deputy Travis Head on the way to figures of 3-58 \u2013 not much less expensive than Cummins, but much more effective.<\/p>\n

\"PatPat Cummins felt the force of India\u2019s star teen Vaibhav Suryavanshi.AP Photo<\/p>\n

Archer, meanwhile, predicted Suryavanshi would soon score 150-plus in an T20 innings.<\/p>\n

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