5 IPL records that look impossible to break, but not for Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has been on a record-breaking/setting spree over the last year or so and, as he prepares for his second IPL season, expectations are sky-high from the 15-year-old boy wonder. While the jury is still out on whether he can overcome the second-season blues - with teams better prepared to tackle his savagery with the bat - Sooryavanshi is not one to back down or get bogged down. He showed glimpses last season that he can hang with the best in the IPL, scoring 252 runs in seven matches, including a century and a fifty, at a strike rate of 206.
56. So, what can we expect from Sooryavanshi in his second season? A lot - plus these five iconic IPL records, which were once thought unbeatable, could very well fall to the 15-year-old teenager.
Highest individual score – 175 (Chris Gayle)* The highest individual score in the IPL belongs to the iconic Chris Gayle, when he unleashed a literal hailstorm - or ‘Gaylestorm’, if you want to put it that way - at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, against a hapless Pune Warriors bowling attack with a sensational 175 not out off just 66 deliveries in the 2013 edition. Clobbering 13 fours and 17 sixes, it was a tour de force innings that has not been seen since, and many believe this is one record that could stand the test of time. But with Vaibhav Sooryavanshi smashing all kinds of records left, right and centre, is that Gayle record finally in danger?
It could very well be. Sooryavanshi has a penchant for going really, really big when he gets in. Sample this: His highest score in Youth T20s is 144 off just 42 balls - and he got out in the 15th over.
His highest score in Youth ODIs is 175 off 80 balls in the final of the 2026 Under-19 World Cup - and he got out in the 26th over. His next-best 171 came in the Under-19 Asia Cup off just 95 balls, and once again he got out in the 33rd over. And he smashed 190 off 84 balls in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, getting out in the 27th over.
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