{"id":703994,"date":"2026-05-30T09:15:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/703994\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:15:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:15:35","slug":"cricket-has-never-seen-a-season-like-sooryavanshis-ipl-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/703994\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket has never seen a season like Sooryavanshi&#8217;s IPL 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Numbers alone cannot capture what Vaibhav Sooryavanshi did in IPL 2026. But they are a good place to start.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-year-old finished the season with 776 runs from 16 matches at an average of 48.50 and a strike rate of 237.31 \u2013 the most destructive batting campaign in the history of T20 cricket.<\/p>\n<p>He is the first batter ever to score 600-plus runs in a T20 tournament while striking at above 200. No one has come close to either milestone individually, let alone both in the same season.<\/p>\n<p>The sixes told their own story. Sooryavanshi finished the season with 65 sixes in the league stage and Eliminator alone \u2013 the most by any batter in a single T20 tournament, surpassing Chris Gayle\u2019s 59 from IPL 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacricketmag.com\/sangakkara-sooryavanshi-more-than-ready-for-india-call-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ALSO: Sangakkara \u2013 Sooryavanshi more than ready for India call-up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the end of Qualifier 2 his total had reached 72, a record that may stand for a generation.<\/p>\n<p>The wagon wheel shows where they went \u2013 18 over midwicket, 16 through square leg, 13 over long on and 11 over fine leg. The off side barely got a look in.<\/p>\n<p>He scored 490 runs in the powerplay \u2013 the most by any batter in a single IPL season, surpassing David Warner\u2019s 467 from 2016. He hit 10 or more sixes in an innings four times, equalling Chris Gayle\u2019s all-time record.<\/p>\n<p>He took a 16-ball fifty in the Eliminator, the joint fastest fifty in IPL playoff history, equalling Suresh Raina\u2019s record from 2014.<\/p>\n<p>His two playoff innings \u2013 97 off 29 balls in the Eliminator and 96 off 47 in Qualifier 2 \u2014 came on the biggest stages of the competition and against the best bowlers in the world. He missed two centuries by a combined seven runs.<\/p>\n<p>Rajasthan Royals did not win the title. But this IPL will be remembered for one name, one season and one player who rewrote the record books at an age when most cricketers are still playing school cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: REUTERS\/Francis Mascarenhas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Numbers alone cannot capture what Vaibhav Sooryavanshi did in IPL 2026. But they are a good place to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-703994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}