In a remarkable feat, 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has become the youngest player in men's T20 cricket to reach 1,000 runs. He achieved this milestone faster than anyone before, taking just 473 balls to get there, surpassing the previous record held by Mitchell Owen, who reached 1,000 runs in 533 balls. Sooryavanshi's achievement came during a whirlwind century knock against Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2026.
Record-breaking century
The teenager hammered a breathtaking 36-ball century in IPL 2026, which is now the third-fastest hundred in league history. Only Chris Gayle's iconic 30-ball blitz and Sooryavanshi's own 35-ball effort from the previous season are faster. His innings was a statistical storm, featuring 12 sixes, the most by an Indian in a single IPL innings. This surpassed the previous mark of 11 sixes jointly held by Murali Vijay and Sooryavanshi himself. Across IPL history, only a handful of innings have featured more maximums.
Elite company
Sooryavanshi now joins an elite group of players, alongside Abhishek Sharma, with multiple IPL knocks featuring 10 or more sixes. He also became the first batter to score more than one IPL hundred in under 40 balls.
Major milestones
- Youngest player in men's T20 history to reach 1,000 runs at age 15.
- Fastest to 1,000 T20 runs by balls faced: 473 balls (previous: Mitchell Owen – 533).
- Reached 1,000 runs in 26 innings, among the fastest ever.
- Only batter among 1,000+ T20 run-scorers with a strike rate over 212.
- Needed just 15 innings to hit 50 IPL sixes, breaking Chris Gayle's long-standing record of 21 innings.
- Also fastest to 50 IPL sixes by balls faced.
- His tally of four T20 centuries in just 26 innings makes him the fastest to that mark in men's cricket, surpassing Pakistan's Usman Khan.
- In the IPL alone, he has reached two hundreds in just 15 innings, quicker than Gayle or Hashim Amla managed.
Century milestones
- 36-ball hundred – third-fastest in IPL history, behind Chris Gayle (30 balls) and his own 35-ball ton.
- Only player with multiple IPL hundreds under 40 balls.
- 2 IPL hundreds in just 15 innings – fastest in league history.
- 4 T20 hundreds in 26 innings – fastest to four centuries in men's T20s (ahead of Usman Khan – 33 innings).
- 12 sixes in an IPL innings – most by an Indian (surpassing Murali Vijay).
- Multiple IPL innings with 10+ sixes (elite list including Chris Gayle and Abhishek Sharma).
- 4 sixes in the first over of an IPL innings – first-ever instance.
- One of only a handful of players with three T20 centuries under 40 balls.
