Sky is the limit! After surpassing Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina, can Vaibhav Suryavanshi break this 12-year-old record? | Cricket News
India U-19 opener Vaibhav Suryavanshi has set English soil on fire with his fiery knocks in the ongoing Youth ODIs against England U-19.In the third ODI, the 14-year-old smashed 86 off 31 balls. He reached his fifty in just 20 balls, and his knock was studded with nine maximums. So far, he has scored 48 (19), 45 (34), and now 86 (31) in the series, and is currently the leading run-scorer for India. The teenager, who set the IPL earlier this year on fire, is breaking one record after another at the U-19 level.During his knock, he surpassed former India cricketers Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina in having the best strike rate in a fastest fifty-plus total for India. Yuvraj had scored a 25-ball 58 with a strike rate of 232 against Australia U-19 in 2000. Raina had smoked a 38-ball 90 with a staggering strike rate of 236.84 against Scotland U-19 in 2004.
Vaibhav, who has scored at the rate of 277.41, is second on the list. The top position is held by India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant, who had scored a 37-ball 78 against Nepal U-19 in 2016 with an impressive strike rate of 325.
What records can Vaibhav Suryavanshi break?
If in the next matches Vaibhav Suryavanshi manages to hit a century, he would become the youngest Indian to score a Youth ODI hundred. Sarfaraz Khan is currently the youngest, having reached three figures aged 15 years and 338 days against South Africa U-19 in 2013.
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Suryavanshi will also become the youngest centurion in Youth ODIs in the world if he manages to reach the three-figure mark. Bangladesh’s Najmul Hossain Shanto is the youngest to score a Youth ODI ton, reaching the landmark aged 14 years and 241 days against Sri Lanka U-19 in 2013.The fastest Youth ODI century ever was hit by Pakistan’s Kamran Ghulam, who slammed a 53-ball century against England U-19 in 2013.For India, Raj Angad Bawa has hit the quickest century in Youth ODIs; the all-rounder smoked a 69-ball century against Uganda in the 2022 U-19 World Cup, which India went on to win.
