Teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has grow to be the youngest captain in top-level males’s Twenty20 cricket after taking cost of his state facet Bihar on Saturday.
Captaining on the age of 15 years and 232 days, Sooryavanshi broke the file held by Zach Vukusic, who captained Croatia aged 17 years and 311 days.
Bihar misplaced their opening match within the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy – India’s home state T20 competitors, beneath the Indian Premier League (IPL) – by 5 wickets to Saurashtra, with Sooryavanshi making 18 from 12 balls.
It’s the newest landmark the younger profession of Sooryavanshi, who turned India’s youngest males’s worldwide in July when he made his T20 debut against England.
He has damaged quite a few information since making his IPL debut for Rajasthan Royals as a 14-year-old in 2025, turning into the franchise event’s youngest participant.
He turned the youngest centurion in males’s T20s when hitting 100 in opposition to Gujarat Titans later that season, and this 12 months was the event’s main run-scorer.
Sooryavanshi performed in two of India’s five T20 internationals in New Zealand earlier this month, with a prime rating of 45 within the third match in Wellington.
He’s additionally as a result of be a part of India’s facet on the Rising Stars Asia Cup, a improvement 50-over event which takes place in Doha later this month.
