
Sanjeev Kumar
khelja|26-03-2026
IPL, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi: The 19th season of IPL is about to start. This time too some old records will be broken and new ones will be made. Amidst those games of records, the eyes will once again be on Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who has ruined the IPL career of a player in his debut season played last year. He ended his IPL even before it started. Now the question is who is that player? So his name is Karim Janat.
Like Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Karim Janat also made his IPL debut last season. In fact, in his debut match itself he faced Vaibhav Suryavanshi. But how did the Afghanistan bowler know that the IPL match in which he was making his debut would become his last one?
In the last season of IPL, that match was played between Rajasthan Royals and Gujarat Titans. Yes, the same match in which Vaibhav Suryavanshi had scored a stormy hundred in 35 balls. Although in this match, 14 year old Vaibhav, playing for Rajasthan, hit every bowler of Gujarat Titans, but seeing the way he opened the thread of debutant Karim Janat was a different experience.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored 30 runs in the first over of Karim Janat in that match. After taking such a beating, Karim Janat became the bowler who gave away the most runs in an over in IPL history. After giving away 30 runs in one over against Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Karim Janat did not get a chance to bowl further in that match. After that it became difficult for him to play further in IPL. Meaning his IPL career also came to an end.
Karim Janat is Afghanistan's batting all-rounder. He has played 2 Tests, 3 ODIs and 75 T20Is for Afghanistan so far. He played only 1 match in IPL. He is the brother of former Afghanistan captain Asghar Afghan.




