Rajasthan Royals’ chase in Jaipur on Tuesday delivered more than two points—it underlined how sharply Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has been finishing games this IPL season, while also highlighting the rare match pattern of multiple dismissals in the 90s. Against Lucknow Super Giants, RR successfully hunted down a hefty total, and the broader numbers from this campaign continue to stack up in Sooryavanshi’s favour.
Sooryavanshi’s six-hitting surge and RR’s momentum
Sooryavanshi has already struck 53 sixes in IPL 2026, the second-highest tally by any batter in any T20 tournament. The record belongs to Chris Gayle, who finished 2012 with 59 maximums in the IPL.
He has managed three separate innings in which he has cleared the ten-six mark in a single IPL innings. He sits just behind Gayle, who has reached that threshold four times. In 2026 alone, Sooryavanshi has produced two such double-digit six displays in innings, and Finn Allen is the only other batter with more than one occasion of ten-plus sixes in an IPL season—also in 2026.
Rajasthan’s early assault has been just as striking. The franchise has collected 60 sixes in the opening six overs of matches in this IPL, the most by any team in that phase within a tournament edition—surpassing the previous benchmark of 59 set by Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2024. Sooryavanshi has accounted for 37 of those 60, and no other batter has even reached 30 sixes in the first six overs in a single edition.
Another key storyline is Sooryavanshi’s ability to build big partnerships. He and Dhruv Jurel have put together three century stands this year, each surpassing 100 runs. Those three 100-plus partnerships are the first instance of an RR duo achieving that feat across an IPL season. Across IPL history for Rajasthan, only Jos Buttler and Sanju Samson have managed three century partnerships for the franchise.
Jaipur trends: 220-plus targets, and how rare they are
Sooryavanshi’s form has coincided with a remarkable home-season pattern for RR in Jaipur. There have been seven totals of 220-plus in eight innings at this venue in IPL 2026. No IPL team had posted a 220-plus score here before 2026, with the earlier best being 219 for 5 against RR in 2025.
Wankhede has also been producing huge totals, with eight 220-plus scores in IPL 2026—the most for any ground in a T20 tournament. Jaipur is next in line, tied with Rawalpindi, which recorded the same number during PSL 2023.
The Tuesday chase in Jaipur: RR’s record hunt
- RR chased down a target of 221 against Lucknow Super Giants on Tuesday in Jaipur.
- This was RR’s fourth successful chase of a 220-plus target in the IPL, the highest such count by any franchise.
- That total moves past the marks of Punjab Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad, who each have three successful 220-plus chases in the competition.
- RR also became the first team in T20 cricket to register four successful chases of 220-plus targets overall, while Bulgaria, England, Middlesex and Mumbai have each managed three such chases.
Additionally, the match featured an unusual batting dismissal pattern. Sooryavanshi’s 93 in the chase meant the game was only the second in IPL history where two batters were dismissed while scoring in the 90s. The first came in 2013, in the CSK vs KKR match at Chepauk, when Michael Hussey was out on 95 and Mavinder Bisla reached 92.
Mitchell Marsh’s two run-outs in the 90s
Lucknow’s Mitchell Marsh has had a tough run in this IPL season’s closing phases: he has been run out in the 90s in successive innings. He is only the second player to be dismissed twice via run-out while in the 90s in T20 cricket, after Gayle.
Sooryavanshi’s matchup numbers and LSG’s powerplay
Against Mohsin Khan in IPL 2026, Sooryavanshi has a strike rate of 16.67. The numbers read starkly: he has scored just two runs off 12 balls and has been dismissed twice. Against every other LSG bowler this season, Sooryavanshi has totaled 99 runs from 37 deliveries, striking at 267.57.
On the bowling side, LSG’s powerplay output against RR was 83 for 0, and it represented the fourth time in their previous five matches that they had reached 80-plus runs in the first six overs. Before this stretch, they had recorded only one such powerplay in IPL history—80 for 1 against CSK in 2023.
