{"id":49283,"date":"2026-04-26T18:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=49283"},"modified":"2026-04-26T18:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:04:27","slug":"cummins-hails-teen-wonder-sooryavanshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=49283","title":{"rendered":"Cummins hails teen wonder Sooryavanshi"},"content":{"rendered":"
Australia’s Pat Cummins says Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is his “new favourite player” after the 15-year-old sensation became the youngest and fastest to score 1,000 T20 runs in a 36-ball century in the IPL.<\/p>\n

The Rajasthan Royals opener blasted 103 off 37 balls for his second IPL ton on Saturday, bolstering his reputation as the brightest young talent in world cricket.<\/p>\n

The fearless batsman hammered five fours and 12 sixes en route to his hundred, shortly after reaching 1,000 runs in T20 cricket with 473 balls faced.<\/p>\n

The previous record was held by Australia’s Mitchell Owen, who completed 1,000 runs in 533 balls.<\/p>\n

Sooryavanshi’s 100 was the third fastest in IPL history, after Chris Gayle’s 30-ball ton in 2013 and his own 35-ball hundred last year.<\/p>\n

However, the effort was not enough as his team’s 228 was overhauled by Sunrisers Hyderabad.<\/p>\n

Hyderabad skipper Cummins, Australia’s Test and ODI captain and a veteran of 219 internationals across three formats, heaped praise on the boy wonder.<\/p>\n

“I think he’s my new favourite player,” Cummins, who has bowled to the best batters in the world and claimed 315 Test wickets, told reporters.<\/p>\n

“He hits the ball so hard, it’s great to watch. It’s good fun. You’ve got to be right on the money as a bowler because if you’re not, it’s going a long way. He’s impressive.”<\/p>\n

Cummins added: “He’s had a great start to his career. I love the way he plays. It takes the game on.”<\/p>\n

Sooryavanshi has been in blazing form in the 2026 IPL with 357 runs, including two 15-ball fifties at a punishing strike rate of 234.86 in eight matches.<\/p>\n

“It’s a no-brainer… he is the most destructive Indian T20 opener,” former England captain Michael Vaughan wrote on X.<\/p>\n

The teenager has bossed world-class bowlers including Indian pace veteran Jasprit Bumrah (Mumbai Indians), smashing the superstar over the wide long-on fence for a six when he faced him for the first time earlier this month.<\/p>\n

His dazzling performances have seen calls for him to be fast-tracked into the senior Indian national team.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australia’s Pat Cummins says Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is his “new favourite player” after the 15-year-old sensation became the youngest and fastest to score 1,000 T20 runs in a 36-ball century in the IPL. The Rajasthan Royals opener blasted 103 off 37 balls for his second IPL ton on Saturday, bolstering his reputation as the brightest young […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}