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Vibhu Suryavanshi’s stellar IPL 2026 campaign ended with another record as the Rajasthan Royals youngster became the first player in the tournament’s history to win five major individual awards in a single season.Although Rajasthan Royals Failing to reach the final, Suryavanshi was the undisputed star of the tournament. The 15-year-old won the awards night, picking up the Emerging Player of the Season, Super Striker of the Season, Super Sixer of the Season, Orange Cap and Most Valuable Player awards.It was a fitting reward for a campaign that completely redefined what was thought possible in the IPL.Suryavanshi ended the season as the tournament’s leading run scorer with 776 runs at an astonishing strike rate of 237.30. He also hit a record-breaking 72 sixes, comfortably breaking Chris Gayle’s long-standing record of 59 sixes in a single IPL season.The dominance of the teenager was reflected in every major category of batting. He won the Orange Cap for finishing as the highest run-scorer, claimed the Super Striker Award for an exceptional scoring rate of 237.30, and received the Super Six Award after clearing the ropes 72 times during the campaign.His impact was far greater than those headline numbers. Suryavanshi became the first uncapped batsman in IPL history to score two centuries and broke Yashaswi Jaiswal’s record for most runs by an uncapped player in a season by a wide margin.His highlight was a 16-ball half-century in the eliminator against Sunrisers Hyderabad, which was equal to the fastest fifty ever in an IPL play-off match. Earlier in the season, he scored a 36-ball century against the same opposition, which was the third-fastest century in IPL history. Notably, he also owns the second fastest IPL century.The youngster continued to rewrite the record books in Qualifier 2, where he became both the youngest batsman to reach 1,000 IPL runs and the fastest through balls. He reached the milestone in just 440 balls, beating Andre Russell’s previous record by 105 balls.Powerplay turned out to be Suryavanshi’s favorite hunting ground. Of his 776 runs, an astonishing 521 came in the first six overs, the highest by any batsman at that stage during an IPL season.His six hit numbers were perhaps even more unusual. Chris Gayle hit a season-high 59 sixes in 456 balls in 2012, a six every 7.7 balls. Suryavanshi, in contrast, hit 72 sixes while facing only 327 balls and cleared a boundary every 4.5 balls.While Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeated Gujarat Titans by five wickets in the final to lift the trophy, the individual award night belonged entirely to Suryavanshi. At the age of just 15, he produced one of the greatest batting seasons of the IPL ever and became the first player to win five major awards in a single edition of the tournament.

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