Complete List of Records Broken by Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in IPL 2026
As Indians follows the Indian Premier League for the two months and after the season they remembered the some of the good performances for long time in their minds. In this year’s IPL Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Rajasthan Royals) has became the household name in India, as 15 year old young sensation has delivered at the big stage and fans admires him for his exceptional performances.
His fearless batting, record six hitting and consistency transformed the game of cricket. Lets look at the records broken by in this year 2026 IPL.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has finished the IPL 2026 with numbers that appear almost unbelievable. In just 16 innings, he scored the 776 runs with the dominating strike rate of 237.30, as he attacked the bowlers from the very first ball and rarely allowed them to settle on the pitch.
No batter in the IPL history has combined high run tally with the such an extraordinary strike rate.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s IPL 2026 Numbers
Sooryavanshi scored 521 runs during the first six overs of innings, the highest ever by a batter in an IPL season. He surpassed David Warner’s previous record of 467 powerplay runs set in 2016.
Vaibhav has smashed the total 72 sixes during IPL 2026, breaking the Chris Gayle’s record of 59 sixes in IPL 2012. It is now the highest six tally recorded in a single IPL edition.
Sooryavanshi finished the season with 776 runs at a strike rate of 237.30. No batter had previously combined such a high run aggregate with a strike rate above 200 in an IPL season.
His 776 runs at 237.30 created a new benchmark in T20 cricket. No player before him had crossed the 700-run mark in a tournament while maintaining a strike rate above 200.
The Rajasthan Royals star broke Yashasvi Jaiswal’s record of 625 runs by an uncapped player. He finished with 776 runs, setting a new all-time record.
Sooryavanshi reached 1,000 IPL runs in just 440 balls. The previous record belonged to Andre Russell, who needed 545 deliveries.
At only 15 years of age, he became the youngest player in IPL history to complete 1,000 career runs.
His blistering 97 off 29 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Eliminator included 12 sixes, the most ever hit in an IPL playoff match.
The 12 sixes against Sunrisers Hyderabad equaled the highest number of sixes hit by an Indian batter in a single IPL innings.
During the Eliminator, Sooryavanshi launched eight sixes in the first six overs, setting a new IPL record.
No player had previously managed three separate innings featuring 10-plus sixes in one IPL edition.
Sooryavanshi recorded his fourth IPL innings with 10 or more sixes, drawing level with Chris Gayle.
He raced to a half-century in just 16 balls during the Eliminator, matching Suresh Raina’s long-standing playoff record.
The season saw Sooryavanshi repeatedly produce ultra-fast half-centuries, placing him among the leaders for fifties scored in fewer than 20 deliveries.
After scoring a hundred in IPL 2025 against Gujarat Titans, he scored another century in IPL 2026, became the first player to achieve the feat.
He reached this milestone in only 15 innings and 250 balls faced and he comfortably surpassing the previous records.
His 97-run knock against the Sunrisers Hyderabad came at a strike rate of 334.48 which is the highest ever recorded for a 90-plus score in the tournament.
While Rajasthan Royals’ other batters scored at a combined strike rate of 150.28, Sooryavanshi operated at 237.30, creating a record difference of 87.02.
His tally of 72 sixes is the highest ever recorded by an opening batter in a single IPL edition.
Sooryavanshi’s record of 46 sixes in the powerplay alone demonstrates his supremacy at the top of the order.
His 36-ball century against Sunrisers Hyderabad is one of the fastest hundreds ever scored in the Indian Premier League and one of the fastest by an Indian player.
He also became one of the most lethal hitter in the IPL history by scoring the 648 runs against the fast bowlers with the strike rate higher than 239.
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