Jos Buttler and former English teammate Stuart Broad have opined that Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has already been working wonders despite his young age. They were in total awe of the captivating stroke play from the Indian prodigy.
Young Vaibhav Sooryavanshi‘s form has taken IPL 2026 by storm, as he has also dominated with the bat while featuring at the top of the Orange Cap leaderboard. Sooryavanshi is just seven sixes away from surpassing the former record held by Chris Gayle.
“The stats galore.” – Jos Buttler praised Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s boundary-hitting ability in the powerplay.
Speaking in a recent episode of the podcast ‘For the Love of Cricket,‘ English player Jos Buttler, alongside his former teammate Stuart Broad, was in sheer disbelief at Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s sheer ball-striking ability.
“And talking about sixes, our friend Vaibhav smashed a few sixes again last night — 93 off 38. He’s now hit the most sixes for sure by an Indian player in an IPL. He’s over 50 (53) sixes, I think, in the season. And I think it’s only Gayle who’s just ahead of him with maybe one or two more sixes for the all-time record for most sixes in a season,” Buttler said.
“I’ve watched him bat in the powerplay,” Buttler said. “The stats galore, right? Balls per boundary in the powerplay are two. So every other ball in the powerplay, he hits a four or a six, which is just crazy,” added Buttler.
Sooryavanshi has been striking at nearly 240, and his efficiency has been such that even the former English speedster did not mince his words to address the amazing run-scoring ability of the RR star.
Sooryavanshi is striking at close to 240 this season – a rate so absurd that Broad joked it effectively means “236 runs for every hundred balls he faces.”
Buttler backs Vaibhav Sooryavanshi to break Chris Gayle’s six-hitting record.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is now the highest six-hitter in the competition, as he has smashed 53 sixes in this edition of the competition. Sooryavanshi is just a few steps behind the former record held by Chris Gayle.
“Chris Gayle—the best T20 player to ever play the game, I think, especially in terms of six-hitting—is the record with 59,” Buttler said.
Jos Buttler further stressed the fact that since the Rajasthan Royals are in fair contention for the playoffs this season, Sooryavanshi is well in sight for breaking the record held by Chris Gayle.
“So I think if Rajasthan gets through to the playoffs, then Vaibhav will definitely go past that record,” Buttler said. “Which again, it’s just another one of these mind-boggling things that he’s doing at 15 years of age,” he added.
“He’s one step ahead of everyone,” claimed the GT veteran alongside his English teammate
Jos Buttler also claimed that whenever any bowling side has considered having cracked down on the formula to dismiss the young batter, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, he usually manages to get off to flying starts and never upsets his team.
“Every time he gets going, it’s like, ‘He’s off again – 43 off 17,’” Broad said. “And then it comes back, ‘I thought we’d worked him out—bouncer and Yorker theory.’”
“He’s one step ahead of everyone,” Buttler added.
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