New Delhi [India], December 26 (ANI): Rising Indian batting star Vaibhav Suryavanshi was felicitated with the ‘Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar’ by the President Droupadi Murmu on Friday for his scintillating batting performances for Crew India in age-group cricket and for Rajasthan Royals (RR) within the Indian Premier League (IPL), which has seen him break loads of information.
The 14-year-old left-handed batter has turn into the speak of your complete nation together with his batting exploits, with many evaluating his rise to Indian cricketing icon Sachin Tendulkar, who additionally began as a teen prodigy from Mumbai.
Suryavanshi, 14, who made historical past final 12 months by turning into the youngest participant to earn an Indian Premier League (IPL) contract after being purchased by Rajasthan Royals for Rs 1.1 crore, has achieved loads of milestones in a profession that has taken off during the last 12 months or so.
Earlier than his maiden IPL look, he had cracked a 58-ball century for India in a four-day sport towards Australia U19 and had featured within the ACC Underneath-19 Asia Cup in 2024, scoring 176 runs at a mean of 44, with two fifties.
Suryavanshi made his IPL debut towards Lucknow Tremendous Giants within the absence of an injured skipper, Sanju Samson, smashing his first ball, bowled by Indian all-rounder Shardul Thakur, for an enormous six and scoring 34 in 20 balls. In simply seven innings in his debut IPL, the 14-year-old obtained 252 runs at a mean of 36.00 and a strike fee of above 206, with a century and a fifty to his title. His century towards the Gujarat Titans made him the youngest centurion in all of T20 cricket, and he additionally outclassed former Indian hitter’s document for the quickest IPL century by an Indian, reaching the milestone in simply 35 balls, smashing seven fours and 11 sixes in his knock.
Later, after the IPL, through the India U19 workforce’s tour of England, the hard-hitting leftie smashed the quickest century within the U19 ODI format and have become the youngest to take action, blasting a brutal 78-ball 143, comprising 13 fours and 10 sixes at a strike fee of 183.33. Suryavanshi’s ton got here off 52 balls, surpassing Pakistan’s Kamran Ghulam’s 53-ball effort towards England again in 2013. Suryavanshi was the highest run-getter of the ODI leg of the sequence, with 355 runs in 5 innings at a mean of 71.00, a strike fee of 174.01, with a century and fifty.
Suryavanshi’s graph continued to go upwards with a blistering 144 in simply 42 balls towards UAE A for India A through the Rising Stars Asia Cup this 12 months. His century got here in 32 balls, a lot quicker than his IPL ton. This turned out to be the joint-third-fastest century for India in T20s. He top-scored in India’s semifinal run with 239 runs in 4 innings at a mean of 59.75, at a strike fee of 243.87.
Final month, in his facet’s Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy conflict towards Maharashtra, he turned the youngest-ever to attain a century within the event’s historical past, smashing a 61-ball 108, with seven fours and 7 sixes towards Maharashtra at a strike fee of over 177.
At 14 years and 272 days, Suryavanshi turned the youngest participant to hit a century in males’s Record A cricket through the Vijay Hazare Trophy (VHT) 2025-26 Plate League fixture towards Arunachal Pradesh on Wednesday. It was Vaibhav’s first non-T20I ton in senior cricket, which got here in simply 36 deliveries. This was {the teenager}’s seventh Record A sport, after debuting towards Madhya Pradesh in December 2025.
Additonally, Suryavanshi shattered former South African cricketer AB de Villiers’ document for the quickest 150 in males’s Record A cricket. The 14-year-old Suryvanshi slammed reached the 150-run mark in 59 deliveries, surpassing de Villiers’ 64-ball milestone towards the West Indies in 2015.
Suryvanshi departed after scoring 190 runs off 84 deliveries with the assistance of 16 fours and 15 sixes at an astounding strike fee of 226.19.
Earlier, Suryavanshi, who’s in line to characteristic in India’s Underneath-19 World Cup marketing campaign in Zimbabwe and Namibia, hammered a 95-ball 171 earlier this month on the Underneath-19 Asia Cup within the UAE.
In 18 T20s, he has scored 701 runs at a mean of 41.23 and a strike fee of 204.37, with three centuries and a fifty. In seven Record-A video games, Suryavanshi has smashed 322 runs in seven matches at a mean of 46.00, with a strike fee of 157.84, together with a century and fifty every. In eight first-class matches, Suryavanshi has scored 207 runs in 12 innings with only one fifty and a mean of 17.25.
In 15 Youth ODIs for India, Suryavanshi has scored 767 runs in 15 matches at a mean of 51.13 and a strike fee of 158.79, with two centuries and three fifties. In six Checks on the youth stage, he has scored 331 runs in six matches at a mean of 33.10, with a strike fee of above 136, two centuries and a fifty. (ANI)
