A strike rate tells you about intent. An average tells you about consistency. A six-count tells you how fearless someone really is once the bowler’s run-up starts. Numbers like these explain why, in cricket, the stats next to a player’s name can matter almost as much as the name itself.

Cricket fans have been arguing about one teenager’s numbers more than almost anyone else’s lately. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (also spelled Suryavanshi) was signed by Rajasthan Royals as a teenager and thrown straight into IPL bowling attacks built to trouble batters twice his age. He didn’t just hold his own. He broke records that had survived more than a decade of franchise cricket. This page pulls together what’s verifiably known about his career numbers, his IPL stats, his domestic and youth-cricket performances, and the milestones that explain why his name keeps turning up in record books. Where official figures haven’t been published yet, that’s stated plainly instead of filled in with a guess.

Career Overview

Here’s the basic profile that frames everything below.

Full Name

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (also spelled Suryavanshi)

Age

15 years (born March 27, 2011)

Nationality

Indian

Role

Opening Batter

Batting Style

Left-Handed

Bowling Style

Slow Left-Arm Orthodox

Teams

Rajasthan Royals (IPL), Bihar (Domestic), India U19 & India A (Pathway)

IPL Debut

April 19, 2025, vs Lucknow Super Giants (age 14y 23d)

Signed By Rajasthan Royals

November 2024 (INR 1.1 crore)

Current Status

Active with Rajasthan Royals (IPL) and Bihar (domestic); part of the India A / India U19 pathway setup

IPL Career Statistics

Most of his statistical body of work comes from IPL 2026, his first full campaign for Rajasthan Royals after a record-breaking debut season in 2025. The table below covers IPL 2026; his 2025 season is broken out separately under Season-by-Season Statistics, since a full aggregate for that year hasn’t been officially published.

Batting average isn’t listed because the dismissal-by-dismissal data needed to calculate it accurately hasn’t been officially published. Better to leave it blank than estimate it.

What the numbers say

A 237.3 strike rate across an entire IPL season isn’t a one-innings fluke. It’s a season-long pattern, and it puts him among the most explosive strikers of the ball in IPL 2026. His 776 runs came off 63 fours and 72 sixes, which means roughly 88% of his total runs came straight from boundaries. He scores in bursts, not in singles.

The 72 sixes matter on their own. That tally broke Chris Gayle’s long-standing record for the most sixes by any batter in a single IPL season, one that had survived more than a decade of franchise cricket featuring some of the format’s biggest hitters. Add the one century and five half-centuries, and you get a batter who doesn’t go big occasionally. He goes big on a regular basis.

Domestic Cricket Statistics

Sooryavanshi represents Bihar across India’s three major domestic competitions: the Ranji Trophy (first-class), the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (T20), and the Vijay Hazare Trophy (List A one-day cricket). A full season-by-season aggregate hasn’t been officially published with the same detail as his IPL numbers, so the table below shows what’s confirmed and marks the rest honestly.

Confirmed domestic milestones

The full match-by-match domestic record isn’t public yet, but two specific innings are well documented:

• 36-ball century vs Arunachal Pradesh (Vijay Hazare Trophy), the innings that made him the youngest centurion in men’s List A history.
• 190 off 84 balls (Vijay Hazare Trophy), recognised as the fastest 150 in men’s List A history and currently his highest confirmed score in any format.

Both knocks came in List A cricket. That’s worth sitting with for a second: List A is a 50-over format that usually rewards patience as much as power, yet he used it to produce two of the most aggressive innings of his young career. It’s an early sign his power game isn’t just a T20 trick.

International Career Statistics

Sooryavanshi hasn’t yet featured for India’s senior team, so there’s no official senior international stat line to report here, and none will be guessed at. What is confirmed is his form at the India U19 and India A pathway level, which is where most young Indian cricketers build their case for the senior side.

The standout here is 175 off 80 balls against England in the 2026 U19 World Cup final, a match-winning innings under the biggest spotlight available at that level. For India A, his recent outings in a tri-nation series against Sri Lanka A and Afghanistan A include 44 off 22, 38 off 28, and two shorter cameos of 21 off 14 and 6 off 3. That’s varied, useful form rather than one big standout score, which is normal across a multi-match series.

Batting Performance Analysis

Powerplay Performance

No ball-by-ball powerplay split is publicly available for him yet, so there’s no exact figure for how many runs arrive in the first six overs. But a 237.3 strike rate sustained across a full IPL season doesn’t really fit the profile of a batter who eases himself in. It fits someone swinging hard from ball one.

Boundary Percentage

This is one spot where the verified numbers allow real analysis, not guesswork. Across IPL 2026, his 63 fours and 72 sixes added up to 684 of his 776 runs. That’s close to 88% of his output coming directly off the bat in boundaries, an extreme number even by modern T20 standards. Running between the wickets clearly isn’t where his game lives. Clearing the rope is.

Six-Hitting Ability

72 sixes in a single IPL season is the headline, and it deserves to be. It’s a tournament record. The context makes it sharper still: he set it as a teenager facing IPL-quality pace and spin for the first time, not as a veteran who’d spent years learning match situations.

Strike Rotation

Dot-ball percentages and single-conversion numbers haven’t been officially published, so specific claims here would be guesswork. What the boundary percentage does suggest is a scoring style built on boundaries rather than busy running between the wickets, a common trait in power-hitting openers, though one that often shifts as bowling attacks improve.

Match-Winning Innings

Two innings stand out as genuinely match-defining rather than just statistically loud: 97 off 29 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL 2026 Eliminator, a knockout game where a slow start ends the tournament, and 175 off 80 balls against England in the 2026 U19 World Cup final, which delivered the title outright.

Performance Under Pressure

Both of those innings came in winner-takes-all situations, about as close as cricket gets to a pressure test. Producing his two biggest contributions in a knockout game and a World Cup final, rather than in low-stakes group fixtures, says something real, even if it isn’t a number you can put in a spreadsheet cell.

Season-by-Season Statistics

IPL 2025

His debut season is remembered for two dates more than a full run tally. April 19, 2025, when he became the youngest player ever to appear in an IPL or T20 match at 14 years and 23 days, and the century that followed soon after: a 38-ball hundred against Gujarat Titans that’s still the fastest IPL century by an Indian batter.

IPL 2026

This was the breakout season in statistical terms, a full campaign rather than a handful of viral innings. Topping the Orange Cap standings as a teenager while also picking up MVP and Emerging Player honours is the kind of year that turns a promising prospect into a franchise’s first-pick player.

Domestic Cricket

A complete season-by-season domestic breakdown across the Ranji Trophy, Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, and Vijay Hazare Trophy isn’t yet officially available. What’s confirmed are the two List A milestone knocks covered above, the 36-ball century and the 190 off 84 balls, both in the Vijay Hazare Trophy.

Records and Milestones

Performance by Format

Key Statistical Highlights

A batting average card was left out on purpose. It needs dismissal data that hasn’t been officially published. The fastest-1,000-runs record takes its place instead, since that figure is fully verified.

Comparison With Other Young Indian Batters

Indian cricket has never lacked teenage talent. The route from promising junior to established name usually takes years, though, not months. Sachin Tendulkar made his international debut at 16 and needed several seasons before the weight of expectation turned into consistent output. More recently, Yashasvi Jaiswal worked his way up through age-group and domestic List A cricket before becoming an IPL regular, and Shubman Gill built his name through List A and Ranji Trophy productivity before franchise cricket came calling.

What separates Sooryavanshi in this conversation isn’t simply that he’s young. Plenty of Indian batters have been young. It’s how fast his statistical impact showed up. Most teenage debutants spend a season or two adjusting to franchise pace and skill before producing standout numbers. He scored a record-breaking century in his very first IPL season, then followed it with a season-topping run tally and six-count the year after. Whether that early peak turns into the long, sustained career that Tendulkar, Gill, and Jaiswal have each built is still an open question. The early numbers, though, are about as strong a starting point as Indian cricket has handed a teenager.

Frequently Asked Questions

Conclusion

Strip away the headlines about his age and what’s left is a genuinely strong set of numbers: a 237.3 strike rate across a full IPL season, 72 sixes that broke a Chris Gayle record, the fastest IPL century by an Indian batter, and a 190 in List A cricket that’s his highest score in any format so far. Few players, at any age, put together that mix of volume and violence in their first two professional seasons.

What comes next is the harder part. IPL bowlers adjust. Domestic attacks sharpen up. The gap between exciting prospect and proven performer usually closes over several seasons, not one or two. Based on the verified numbers so far, though, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has given himself about as strong a statistical foundation as a teenage batter can ask for, and the records he’s already broken suggest he isn’t finished rewriting the book yet.