Vaibhav Sooryavanshi produced a breathtaking display in the IPL 2026 Eliminator at New Chandigarh, smashing 97 off 29 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad to drive Rajasthan Royals (RR) into Qualifier 2. The 15-year-old\u2019s timing and power left SRH captain Pat Cummins with very little margin for error as RR completed a hard-fought win.<\/p>\n
Out of Sooryavanshi\u2019s 97, Cummins directly accounted for 31 runs in his spell\u2014yet even that didn\u2019t fully capture the impact of the young batter. Cummins began with a couple of yorkers against him; the first was well defended, and then Cummins managed to squeeze out a single. The moment the yorker was missed, the contest changed\u2014on the very next delivery, Sooryavanshi lofted it straight down the ground for his first six.<\/p>\n
In Cummins\u2019 following over, Sooryavanshi took control in a hurry, striking 4, 6, 6, 6 off successive deliveries, with a wide thrown in between the big hits. The sequence underlined how quickly the innings flipped once the length and target were not spot on.<\/p>\n
After the match, Cummins summed up the challenge of bowling to Sooryavanshi. \u201cYeah, he played pretty well. You don\u2019t feel like you have too many options,\u201d he said. \u201cObviously, it\u2019s a really good pitch, but the margins are so small\u2014you know, you miss your yorker by a little bit and he doesn\u2019t tend to miss them. So yeah, fair play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jofra Archer added that Sooryavanshi\u2019s ability to pile up massive totals isn\u2019t limited to smaller bursts\u2014he believes the teenager can convert his T20 dominance into even bigger landmarks. \u201cIt was very exciting. The more runs he scores, the more runs we have to defend, so he can go on and get 150. It\u2019s good for the boys when he gets a lot of runs,\u201d Archer said.<\/p>\n
RR captain Riyan Parag, meanwhile, suggested that the best approach is to keep things simple around the youngster. \u201cThat\u2019s the thing\u2014we don\u2019t have any conversations,\u201d Parag said at the post-match presentation. \u201cYeah, just leave him alone, let him go and have fun. He likes batting like I\u2019ve said before, so we get him a lot of batting practice at the nets and stuff like that, and then he goes out and does his thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
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