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Desk: The 40th match of IPL 2026 will be played between Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) at the Maharaja Yadvinder Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur. Punjab Kings are currently on top in the points table and would like to further strengthen their position by winning this match. At the same time, Rajasthan Royals will try to return to winning ways after the recent defeat. The biggest discussion of the match is about 15 year old sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi. This young opener is continuously performing amazingly this season.

Vaibhav Suryavanshi had achieved the feat of scoring a century in 36 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the last match. Vaibhav Suryavanshi has scored 357 runs in 8 matches this season, which includes 1 century and 2 half-centuries. He is in third place in the Orange Cap race, but by scoring only 24 more runs, he can achieve the number-1 position. His strike rate is also very aggressive, due to which he is proving to be a threat to the opposing teams in every match.

Apart from this, Vaibhav is just 43 runs away from a big record. If he continues his stormy style and scores 43 runs in this match, he will touch the 400-run mark in IPL 2026. With this, he will become the first batsman in IPL history to score 400 or more runs with a strike rate of more than 230 in a season. Let us tell you, Vaibhav Suryavanshi had batted similarly last season and had scored 252 runs at a strike rate of 206.55.

Let us tell you, Vaibhav Suryavanshi will play against the Punjab team for the second time. Last season he played a match against this team. In that match, while chasing the target of 220 runs, Vaibhav Suryavanshi played a stormy inning of 40 runs in 15 balls. That innings included 4 fours and 4 sixes. That means Vaibhav Suryavanshi had scored all the runs only from boundaries. In such a situation, fans are once again expecting similar innings from Vaibhav Suryavanshi.