Star India batter Vaibhav Suryavanshi on Wednesday broke former India U19 World Cup-winning captain Unmukt Chand’s record to hit the most sixes in Youth ODIs, with 41 to his name at the moment as compared
to the latter’s 38. Suryavanshi is currently playing a Youth ODI series against Australia.
Coming on the back of a 38-ball knock in the first ODI, Suryavanshi was at the top of his power in the second, as he scored a 68-ball 70 to build a stable second-wicket partnership after skipper Ayush Mhatre was dismissed for a two-ball duck.
It took only a stunning catch from Aryan Sharma to get rid of Suryavanshi, who was left disappointed as he looked all set for a big score.
Chand had smacked 38 sixes across 21 matches, while Suryavanshi reached the mark in just 10 innings. He smashed six sixes during his 70-run innings against Australia before being dismissed by skipper Yash Deshmukh, thanks to a brilliant catch by Aryan.
Suryavanshi has amassed 540 runs in Youth ODIs, with over a quarter (26%) coming from boundaries, including 41 sixes. Among Indians, after him and Chand, Yashasvi Jaiswal leads in sixes with 30 hits across 27 matches between 2018 and 2020, now a regular in the Indian setup.
Hailing from Samastipur, Suryavanshi has already etched his name in history. In the 2023-24 Ranji Trophy season, he debuted at just 12 years and 284 days against Mumbai, becoming the youngest cricketer ever in the tournament.
Suryavanshi blasted the fastest Youth ODI hundred, reaching 100 off just 52 deliveries and going past Pakistan’s Kamran Ghulam, who held the record with a 53-ball century six years ago.
In the same knock, Suryavanshi set the Indian record for most sixes in a single match with 10 as well.
At 13 years and 188 days, Suryavanshi became the youngest centurion in the 170-year history of competitive cricket. He set the record for the fastest hundred by an Indian at the youth level with a 58-ball century against Australia in the 1st Youth Test in Chennai as well.
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