The Rajasthan Royals have qualified for the IPL 2026 playoffs and made it to Qualifier 2 following an extraordinary show in the Eliminator against one of the strongest teams in this season of the IPL, the Sunrisers Hyderabad.
After the 2025 mega-auction, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi was bought for just INR 1.1 crores by the Rajasthan Royals. Rahul Dravid was the head coach who recognized the immense potential in the 13-year-old star.
Sooryavanshi has amassed 680 runs this season and currently sits at the top of the Orange Cap leaderboard following his commanding innings in the Eliminator. He played a blistering knock of 97 runs off just 29 balls and could have decked up a century, had he not been dismissed in pursuit of breaking Chris Gayle's former record.
“Best buy ," Lalit Modi reserves special praise for the young prodigy
Lalit Modi, the founder of the IPL, seems to think that he is undoubtedly the best investment ever made by any team in the IPL. This special praise for the cricketer came after his heroic knock in the Eliminator. Lalit Modi posted through his official X handle.
Best buy of any player in history @Vaibhavsooryava by @rajasthanroyals ???? pic.twitter.com/h3bCYA73bt
— Lalit Kumar Modi (@LalitKModi) May 28, 2026Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's record-breaking season in IPL 2026
Sooryavanshi with twelve towering sixes in his 97-run innings broke the record for most sixes in a single playoff game, most sixes in an innings by any Indian cricketer and lastly the most innings in the IPL with 10+ sixes.
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