New Delhi:
Vaibhav Suryavanshi creates history: On the second day of the two-day Indian Premier League mega auction (IPL 2025 mega auction) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), 13-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who played for Bihar, created history. And he became the youngest player to be sold in the tournament's nearly 16-year history. Certainly, it is a big achievement for any 13-year-old player to get a contract for this amount in IPL.
All eyes were on Vaibhav
When Vaibhav registered for the auction, he became the youngest player to register. Since then, fans and experts had their eyes fixed on Vaibhav. Due to his very young age, everyone was looking at him with curiosity. For Vaibhav, the two teams remained between Delhi Capitals and Rastan Royals. And finally, Rajasthan, which has created a reputation of encouraging young players, left Delhi behind and took this “child player” in its fold for Rs 1.10 crore.
Watch 13 year old vaibhav suryavanshi's quick fire 82 runs against Australia u19
RR picks him for 1.10 Cr pic.twitter.com/7mMvKHtbvv
— ICT Fan (@Delphy06) November 25, 2024
Still to show strength in first class!
Vaibhav has so far played five Ranji Trophy matches for his state Bihar, but the impact of his explosive innings in junior cricket, due to which he got a place in the team, was not visible in the initial matches. In five matches, Vaibhav has been able to score only 100 runs at an average of 10. His best score has been 41. In this he hit 18 fours and 2 sixes. It is clear that he is yet to make an impact but the encouragement he has received from Rajasthan Royals will definitely be visible in the Ranji Trophy matches.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi – 13 years old, became the youngest to be part of IPL goes to Rajasthan Royals at Rs 1.1 cr pic.twitter.com/Y8unGk4oNZ
— SmartBarani (@SmartBarani) November 25, 2024
There was a lot of benefit from this innings
Recently, a four-day unofficial test match was played between the Indian Under-19 team and Australia Junior in Chennai from 30 October to 2 November. In this match, Vaibhav started the innings and played the band of the visiting team. Vaibhav then played an inning of 104 runs in 62 balls with 14 fours and 4 sixes. And the echo of this innings also reached the IPL franchise talent spot managers. And this innings helped Vaibhav a lot in getting Rs 1.10 crore.
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