Vaibhav Suryavanshi breaks Unmukt Chand’s record of most career sixes in Youth ODI cricket

Batting prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi recently shattered a long-standing Youth ODI record as he overtook Unmukt Chand to hold the feat for the most career sixes in Youth One-Day Internationals. 

U19 World Cup-winning captain Unmukt set the benchmark with 38 sixes across 21 Youth ODI appearances. Suryavanshi crossed that mark during India U-19’s ongoing tour of Australia, reaching the milestone in only a handful of outings at the top level of age-group one-day cricket. 

Suryavanshi’s record-breaking moment came in an aggressive cameo in the first Youth ODI against Australia U-19 at Ian Healy Oval, where he hammered 38 off 22 balls to begin India’s chase. That quickfire cameo helped the visitors get a solid start and eventually a dominant seven-wicket victory in the series opener, in which Abhigyan Kundu (87*) and Vedant Trivedi (61*) later put together an unbroken 152-run partnership. Australia’s 225 was built around John James' 77, but India’s bowlers had kept the hosts under pressure earlier in the match. 

Meanwhile, Suryavanshi arrived at the Australia tour fresh off a solid England series and a stunning start to his IPL career with Rajasthan Royals, where he was signed as a teenager and later became the youngest men’s T20 centurion in franchise history. In the second ODI of the tour, the southpaw reached his fifty in 54 balls, which featured four sixes. His innings came to an end after a 68-ball 70, which was laced with five boundaries and six sixes. The youngster is looked up to as the next big thing in Indian cricket, and many experts and critics have stated that if he continues his fine form, a senior national men's call-up and a potential debut are not far.