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The Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur bore witness to a historic display of power-hitting on Saturday, May 9, 2026. Rajasthan Royals’ 15-year-old sensation, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, continued his meteoric rise by dismantling the Gujarat Titans’ bowling attack. In a blistering cameo of 36 runs from just 16 deliveries, the young prodigy etched his name into the record books multiple times, proving that age is truly just a number in the modern era of T20 cricket.

Here are the three monumental records broken by Vaibhav Sooryavanshi during the clash:

Youngest and Fastest to 100 T20 Sixes

Sooryavanshi became the first cricketer in history to hit 100 T20 sixes before turning 20 when he smashed a towering maximum off Mohammed Siraj off the very first ball of his innings. He previously held the “youngest” record at only 15 years and 43 days old. More impressively, he did this in just 514 balls, making him the fastest man to reach the century mark of sixes in terms of deliveries faced, comfortably eclipsing the long-standing record held by Kieron Pollard (843 balls).

Most Powerplay Sixes in a Single IPL Season

Vaibhav’s aggressive intent at the top of the order has been the hallmark of his 2026 campaign. He hit three sixes in the first 1.3 overs on Saturday to take his tally to 32 sixes in the powerplay (1-6 overs) for the season. The feat saw him surpass Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Abhishek Sharma who had set the record of 29 powerplay sixes in the 2024 season. Sooryavanshi now has the record of being the ‘King of the Powerplay’ in IPL history.

Second Indian to Hit 40 Sixes in an IPL Season

The teenager’s third six of the night also put him in an elite bracket of Indian batters. He became the second Indian cricketer to hit 40 sixes in an IPL season (after Abhishek Sharma, 42 sixes in 2024). There are still a lot of matches left in the season and Sooryavanshi is now just three sixes away from becoming the leading Indian six-hitter in a single edition of the tournament.

The “Bihar Prodigy” was out for 36 in a 146.6 kph short ball from Siraj but he had done enough to leave the cricketing world in awe. His ease in dominating international stars suggests that the IPL has its newest, and perhaps youngest, global star.