{"id":504350,"date":"2026-03-31T01:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504350\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:02:07","slug":"15-year-old-cricket-prodigy-vaibhav-sooryavanshi-smashes-15-ball-ipl-half-century-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/504350\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old cricket prodigy Vaibhav Sooryavanshi smashes 15-ball IPL half century | Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Days after turning 15, Rajasthan Royals opener Vaibhav Sooryavanshi found a perfect way to celebrate, tearing to a 15-ball half-century in a commanding eight-wicket victory over Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Sooryavanshi, who lit up his debut season with a 35-ball hundred against Gujarat Titans last year, took only 15 balls to smash his first fifty of the season \u2013 the third fifty-plus score of his eight-match <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/ipl\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IPL<\/a> career so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Alongside fellow opener and India batter Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sooryavanshi tore into the Chennai attack in the powerplay, leading the team to 74 without loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Sooryavanshi was dismissed for 52 after 17 balls, including five sixes and four fours, after sharing a blistering 75-run stand with Jaiswal. Rajasthan sealed victory in just 12.1 overs after chasing down a victory target of 128.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI think of defending but the plan was to decide the game in the powerplay as we\u2019d restricted them to a low score,\u201d Sooryavanshi said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cIf the bowlers had bowled well in the powerplay then the game might have turned their way but we went all out in the powerplay.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Under-19 World Cup winner credited Rajasthan coach Kumar Sangakkara and staff for backing his attacking instincts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThey told me to read the situation well and back my game,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Rajasthan\u2019s quick chase followed a brilliant bowling effort. Their attack reduced Chennai to 41-4 at the end of the powerplay, putting the visitors firmly on the back foot before they were dismissed for 127 in 19.4 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">South Africa pace bowler Nandre Burger led the charge with figures of 2-26 and was named player of the match, while Jofra Archer and Ravindra Jadeja also took two wickets apiece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Rajasthan will next face Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad on Saturday, while Chennai host Punjab Kings on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Days after turning 15, Rajasthan Royals opener Vaibhav Sooryavanshi found a perfect way to celebrate, tearing to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-504350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}