Rajasthan Royals, the first-ever champions of the IPL, have been awaiting their second title within the IPL for all these seasons. Below a brand new skipper, the Royals and their youngest participant, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, have declared themselves the champions of IPL 2026.
The Rajasthan Royals have managed to win just one IPL, which was again in 2008, the inaugural season of the IPL. Ever since then, they’ve performed in simply one of many different IPL finals, in 2022, when the Sanju Samson-led facet was defeated by the Gujarat Titans.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, the teen, was included within the Rajasthan Royals enjoying XI final time. He went on to be the youngest ever cricketer, aged 13, who was a part of the RR enjoying XI within the IPL. He then went on to be the youngest centurion within the IPL.
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Vaibhav Sooryavanshi declares Rajasthan Royals because the champions of IPL 2026
Forward of the beginning of IPL 2026, the Rajasthan Royals administration and their youngest cricketer, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, have declared themselves champions of the upcoming season of the IPL.
In a promotional video forward of the IPL 2026, the Royals staff confirmed Vaibhav Sooryavanshi imitating Ranveer Singh’s well-known scene from the Bollywood film Dhurandhar, the place he writes down his targets in a secret diary.
Sooryavanshi has been seen placing off his completed targets, like an IPL century and the U19 World Cup, whereas he writes the following goal because the IPL trophy. Suryavanshi’s type has been chic throughout all codecs of white-ball cricket.
𝐕𝐚𝐢𝐛𝐡𝐚𝐯 𝐒𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐏𝐋 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 🔥💗 pic.twitter.com/Eh2ofR9N3L
— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) March 16, 2026
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s dream debut in IPL 2025
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi didn’t get his probability within the first half of the match for the Rajasthan Royals. The Rahul Dravid-led facet splendidly scouted the younger cricketer from Bihar as a supreme expertise who will form the way forward for the Rajasthan Royals and Indian cricket.
Sooryavanshi performed 7 video games for the Royals and amassed 252 runs for them with a strike charge of over 200. He averaged 36 within the match and scored a century in his debut season. As a 13-year-old cricketer, he’s the youngest to have scored 100.
He scored a half-century and a century, which additionally grew to become the second-fastest century within the IPL off simply 35-balls in opposition to the Gujarat Titans.
Sooryavanshi’s terrific run for India within the U19 Asia Cup and World Cup
The 14-year-old cricketer grew to become the youngest cricketer to characteristic within the ICC U19 World Cup, as he was a part of the 2026 ICC Males’s U19 World Cup. The opening batter from India scored 439 runs throughout 7 innings for India at a mean of 62.71.
What made him totally different from others was the chic strike charge of 169.50. He completed because the second-highest run-getter within the match and led India to a different U19 World Cup triumph.
His record-breaking innings got here within the ultimate, when he scored 175 runs off simply 80 balls within the ultimate of the competitors. He additionally broke the file for many sixes within the single version of the Below-19 World Cup.
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