Ranchi, Dec 24 (UNI) 14-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi from Bihar became the youngest player ever to score a century in men’s List A cricket during the Vijay Hazare Trophy (VHT) 2025-26 Plate League match against Arunachal Pradesh on Wednesday.
Suryavanshi’s blistering 36 balls marked his seventh List A appearance since debuting against Madhya Pradesh in December. With this feat, he also became the second-fastest Indian to reach a List A hundred, following Anmolpreet Singh’s 35-ball century against Arunachal Pradesh in 2024.
Other elite names on the list include Yusuf Pathan (40 balls), Urvil Patel (41 balls), and Abhishek Sharma (42 balls).
The teenager also shattered former South African star AB de Villiers’ record for the fastest 150 in men’s List A cricket. Suryavanshi reached the 150-run milestone in just 59 deliveries, eclipsing de Villiers’ 64-ball record set against the West Indies in 2015.
He eventually fell for 190 off 84 balls, striking 16 fours and 15 sixes at an astonishing strike rate of 226.19.
Earlier this month, he had also impressed at the Under-19 Asia Cup in the UAE, scoring 171 off 95 balls, falling just six short of Ambati Rayudu’s India record for youth one-dayers (177 against England in Taunton, 2002).
Suryavanshi, who is expected to feature in India’s upcoming Under-19 World Cup in Zimbabwe and Namibia, has played 15 youth ODIs, amassing 51.13 runs on average with two centuries and three half-centuries, maintaining a strike rate of 158.79.
