Sports Desk. On the basis of brilliant innings of Vaibhav Suryavanshi (93 runs) and Dhruv Jurel (53 not out), Rajasthan Royals defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 7 wickets in the 64th match of IPL 2026. In this match, at the age of 15, Vaibhav Suryavanshi created history and completed 500 runs in this season of IPL. With this, he has become the youngest player in the world to score 500 runs in any T20 tournament.

In the match played in Jaipur, Vaibhav needed only 14 runs to achieve this big feat and he achieved this feat in 14 balls. With this historic performance, he also broke the record of wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant. Earlier, the record of becoming the youngest to score 500 runs in an IPL season was in his name. Rishabh Pant had achieved this feat in 2018.

Became the first Indian to do so

In the same match, Vaibhav Suryavanshi also became the first Indian batsman to hit 50 sixes in an edition of IPL. Before the match, Vaibhav had 43 sixes in this edition of IPL. As soon as he hit 7 sixes against Lucknow, he registered this Indian record in his name. Vaibhav hit 10 sixes in his innings. In this way he has 53 sixes in his name in one IPL season.

Now there will be a chance to break Gayle’s record

Vaibhav has left Andre Russell behind in the list of batsmen who have hit more sixes in an IPL season.

Now he has a great opportunity to break the record of former great West Indies batsman Chris Gayle. Gayle holds the record for hitting the most number of sixes in an IPL season. He hit 59 sixes in one IPL season.

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