Vaibhav Sooryavanshi tore into Sunrisers Hyderabad on Saturday night, reaching his century in 36 balls at Jaipur’s Sawai Mansingh Stadium and lifting Rajasthan Royals with his first hundred of this IPL season and his second overall in the league. The 15-year-old left Pat Cummins and other bowlers scrambling as he turned the innings into a one-man exhibition.
The knock sent the discussion about his place in the game into overdrive. Sam Billings, who was playing in the Pakistan Super League for Rawalpindi when he commented, posted on X that Sooryavanshi might be the best 15-year-old ever in any professional sport and said he was seeing Lamine Yamal level talent. Yamal is 18 and already has more than 100 games for Barcelona and a couple of dozen for Spain, a comparison that underlines how rare Sooryavanshi’s rise has become.
Sooryavanshi has been drawing accolades from current and former cricketers throughout this IPL, and the latest blast has sharpened active talks about whether he should be fast-tracked into the Indian team. Ajit Agarkar leads the selectors, and one line of thought around him is whether they could put Sooryavanshi on the flight to Ireland in June before India’s white-ball tour of England.
That possibility is what makes Saturday night matter beyond the scorebook. Ireland is on the calendar in June for two matches, and if selectors decide the teenager is ready, the next step would move fast. For now, the innings stands as another reminder that vaibhav sooryavanshi is no longer being discussed as a prodigy with promise but as a player forcing senior cricket to make room for him.
