Suryavanshi unleashes teen power with sixes and a ton

The 14-year-old hits second-fastest IPL ton as RR chase down 209 with 25 balls to spare, beat Titans

- Somshuvra Laha

KOLKATA: Fourteen-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi became the youngest to score an IPL hundred, and the second fastest ever off 35 balls, to decimate Gujarat Titans by eight wickets after a scintillating pursuit of 209 that Rajasthan Royals pulled off in 15.5 overs in Jaipur on Monday.

Raising his maiden IPL fifty in 17 balls, Suryavanshi continued in the same vein, hitting an astounding 11 sixes and seven fours in his 101 before he was eventually cleaned up by Prasidh Krishna in the 12th over. Unprecedented scenes had been unleashed by then with Royals scoring 87 in the Powerplay, reaching 100 in the eighth over and aggregating 14 runs per over by the time Suryavanshi was dismissed. In the end, Royals cantered to a win that keeps them alive in the tournament.