Sooryavanshi Becomes Fastest To Reach 1,000 IPL Runs in Terms of Balls Faced

Mullanpur: Rajasthan Royals’ (RR) young prodigy Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has become the fastest player to complete 1,000 runs in terms of balls bowled in the Indian Premier League (IPL) season.

Sooryavanshi scored another big score in another knockout match and produced another great innings when his team lost wickets at the other end.

The 15-year-old left-hander scored 86 off 47 balls, including eight fours and seven sixes, at a strike rate of 204.26.

Sooryavanshi scored 776 runs in 16 matches at an average batting average of 48.50, with a strike rate of 237.30, a century with five fifties and a best score of 103. It also includes 63 fours and 72 sixes, making it a generational season in every respect.

This is the fifth-best IPL season in terms of runs, with Virat Kohli (973 runs in 2016), Shubman Gill (890 runs in 2023), Jos Buttler (863 runs in 2022) and David Warner (848 runs in 2016).

Sooryavanshi has 1,028 runs in 23 matches and innings at an average of 44.69 and a strike rate of 228.95, including two centuries and six fifties, with his best score being 103.

He is the fastest to reach 1,000 IPL runs in just 440 balls, surpassing West Indies legend Andre Russell (545 balls). In terms of strikeouts, Sooryavanshi is the second fastest to reach this milestone with 23 innings, while former Australia and Punjab Kings (PBKS) star Shaun Marsh (21 innings) is at the top.

He is also the first batsman in IPL history to have 500 or more runs in a single edition during the powerplay phase, scoring 521 runs at a strike rate of 233.33.

Coming to the match, RR won the toss and chose to bat first. RR faced an early collapse at 9/2 and lost Yashasvi Jaiswal (1) and Dhruv Jurel (7) early. Sooryavanshi and Ravindra Jadeja (45 off 35 balls, five fours and a six) stitched a 92-run stand until Jadeja retired for 34 runs. Following this, RR fell to 118/5.

But Sooryavanshi continued to go hammer and tongs at the other end and stitched up another half-century stand with Jadeja. Then Donovan Ferreira (38* from 11 balls, two fours and four sixes) and Jadeja took RR to 214/6 in 20 overs.

Kagiso Rabada (2/35) was the pick of the bowlers for GT, with Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna also taking wickets.