 "Take a look at the records broken by Vaibhav Suryavanshi during his historic century. Image: AP")
Records tumbled at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on Monday as 14-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi smashed a match-winning century in just 35 balls for the Rajasthan Royals (RR) against Gujarat Titans (GT). Suryavanshi scored 101 off 38 balls before getting bowled by Prasidh Krishna as RR defeated GT by eight wickets to keep their hopes alive in the race for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 playoff spots.
The teenager from Samastipur, Bihar, smashed 11 sixes and seven fours in his whirlwind knock that proved his critics wrong. Vaibhav Suryavanshi was bought for Rs 1.1 crore by the Royals in the IPL 2025 mega auction.
His 35-ball ton is the second-fastest century in IPL history and it has been labelled as the “greatest ever” performance across 18 seasons of the cash-rich T20 league by South African great Shaun Pollock. “These are international-class bowlers. We are talking about Rashid Khan, two quicks at the top of order. These are proper international bowlers and they just disappeared. For me, this is the greatest individual performance of the IPL ever,” Pollock told Cricbuzz. “It has to be. For a 14-year-old to stand out there and smashing around. He got a hundred of 35 balls. There has been great victories and performances but that has to be the greatest ever performance in IPL history.
“The fourth year of IPL he wasn’t born. There were some guys in IPL who were playing IPL for four years before he was born. To walk out like he did today and he just dictated terms. Remarkable.”
We take a look at the records that were broken during aibhav Suryavanshi’s blistering knock.
Records broken by Vaibhav Suryavanshi
By hitting a hundred at the age of 14, Vaibhav Suryavanshi has become the youngest to score a century in T20 cricket.
Youngest to score a T20 century:
14 years and 32 days - Vaibhav Suryavanshi (RR vs GT 2025)
18 years and 118 days - Vijay Zol (Maharashtra vs Mumbai 2013)
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Second-fastest IPL century: Vaibhav Suryavanshi took just 35 balls to score his maiden IPL hundred. This is the second-fastest century in IPL history as he surpassed Yusuf Pathan’s record.
Fastest IPL hundreds:
Chris Gayle (RCB) - 30 balls
Vaibhav Suryavanshi (RR) - 35 balls
Yusuf Pathan (RR) - 37 balls
David Miller (KXIP) - 38 balls
Travis Head (SRH) | Priyansh Arya (PBKS) - 39 balls
Highest boundary contribution in an IPL century: 94 out of 101 runs Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored came through boundaries. He smashed 11 sixes and 7 fours, totaling 93% of his runs coming from boundaries, as he set the record for accumulating the highest percentage of runs in an IPL century through boundaries.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi equals Murali Vijay’s record: By hitting 11 sixes, Vaibhav Suryavanshi equalled Vijay’s record of hitting the most sixes by an Indian in an IPL innings.
Record partnership for Rajasthan Royals: The 166-run partnership between Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Yashasvi Jaiswal is the highest stand for any wicket for Rajasthan Royals. They broke the record of 155 runs established by Jos Buttler and Devdutt Padikkal against Delhi Capitals at Wankhede Stadium in 2022.