PM Modi Meets 14-Year-Old Prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi & Family
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Vaibhav Suryavanshi during the inauguration of the new terminal building of Patna Airport.
Published : May 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM IST
|Updated : May 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM IST
Patna: Prime Minister Narendra Modi met 14-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi and his family. The young gun has captured eyeballs of every cricket fan in India with his extraordinary performances in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season.
Taking to the social media platform X, the Prime Minister shared a few photos and lauded the teenager's talent.
"At Patna airport, met the young cricketing sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi and his family. His cricketing skills are being admired all over the nation! My best wishes to him for his future endeavours," PM Modi posted.
At Patna airport, met the young cricketing sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi and his family. His cricketing skills are being admired all over the nation! My best wishes to him for his future endeavours. pic.twitter.com/pvUrbzdyU6
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 30, 2025
Suryavanshi, who was bought for a whopping 1.1 Crore by Rajasthan Royals (RR) in IPL 2025 mega auction, emerged as one of the breakthrough stars of the tournament. In just seven matches, the teenager accumulated 252 runs, but it was his explosive century against Gujarat Titans (GT) in Jaipur that truly sent shockwaves through the cricketing world.
Batting with a maturity well beyond his years, Suryavanshi hammered 101 off just 38 deliveries, second fastest hundred by any batter in IPL history and also became the youngest ever centurion in men's T20 cricket.
The biggest night of Suryavanshi's career so far witnessed him break several other records:
- This is also the seventh-fastest century in T20 cricket, with the fastest one belonging to Sahil Chauhan of Estonia against Cyprus in 2024, coming in just 27 balls.
- Suryavanshi also reached his fifty in just 17 balls, the fifth-fastest in league history, making him the youngest ever to score an IPL fifty.
- 94 of Suryavanshi's runs came through boundaries, with seven fours and 11 sixes included. 93% boundary percentage is the highest in any century in IPL's history.
- Also, Vaibhav tied with former Indian batter Murali Vijay for most sixes by an Indian in an IPL innings, 11 each, with most sixes overall being hit by Gayle during his iconic 175* against Pune Warriors India, which included 17 maximums.
- Also, the 166-run stand between Vaibhav and Yashasvi Jaiswal is the highest partnership for any wicket for Rajasthan Royals, surpassing 155 by Jos Buttler & Devdutt Padikkal against DC at the Wankhede in 2022.
- Suryavanshi also took just three innings to reach his maiden IPL ton, outdoing Punjab Kings (PBKS) batters Priyansh Arya and Paul Valthaty, who took four innings, as per Wisden.com.
The meeting with the Prime Minister adds another memorable chapter to Suryavanshi's meteoric rise in Indian cricket.
