Follow UsFourteen-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi produced a historic unbeaten 108 off 61 balls in Bihar’s Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy match against Maharashtra at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, striking seven fours and seven sixes to lift his team to 176/3.
Opening the innings, he brought up his fifty off 33 balls and completed his century in 57 deliveries, dominating the Maharashtra attack throughout the innings despite not going at his usual rapid pace.
The young left-hander raced to his fifty with aggression and continued in the same vein. His century came off 57 balls as he became the central axis of Bihar’s batting. Suryavanshi’s knock marked his first hundred in SMAT, and at just 14, made him the youngest centurion in the tournament’s history.
His knock also rewrote multiple record lists. Suryavanshi became the youngest Indian to score a T20 century, and the first teenager to score three T20 hundreds. One of those three hundred came in the Indian Premier League when he scored a ton against the Gujarat Titans in just 35 deliveries and became a worldwide sensation.
Since then, the teenager from Samastipur has been part of India’s U19 setup and also India A, when he played the Rising Stars Asia Cup in Qatar. His second T20 hundred came in that tournament when he smashed a 32-ball hundred against UAE. Now he is also selected for the U19 Asia Cup, which is beginning soon.
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