Smashes joint second fastest T20 hundred by an Indian batter at India A's Asia Cup Rising Stars match against UAE on Friday.
Young opener Vaibhav Suryavanshi smashed a blistering joint second fastest T20 hundred by an Indian batter, propelling India A to a thumping 148-run win over United Arab Emirates in the Asia Cup Rising Stars in Doha on Friday.
Suryavanshi made 144 off 42 balls (11x4s, 15x6s) and skipper Jitesh Sharma scored 83 off 32b as India piled up a massive 297 for 4 in 20 overs.
The 14-year-old brought up his hundred in just 32 balls to equal Rishabh Pant's mark made for Delhi against Himachal Pradesh in 2018.
Chasing 298 was never in the capacity of the UAE batters, and their genuine hope was just to keep the margin of defeat as low as possible. But even that was tough against a quality Indian attack that contained first-class regulars.
UAE were never in contention and ended up at 149/7, with left-arm pacer Gurjapneet Singh (3/18) leading India's bowling effort.
UAE middle-order batter Shoaib Khan made a 41-ball 63 to offer a token of resistance.
Earlier, Suryavanshi smashed a breath-taking 144 runs off 42 balls as his second Twenty20 century powered India A to a mammoth total of 297-4 in their Asia Cup Rising Stars match against the United Arab Emirates in Doha on Friday.
Suryavanshi's 100 came off just 32 balls to make it the joint second fastest century by an Indian batter in T20 cricket.
The l4-year-old brought up his century with a nicely timed four off pacer Muhammad Arfan in the 10th over.
Suryvanshi had a silent partner in Naman Dhir (34), and the second wicket pair added 168 runs in a little over 10 overs as runs flowed in at 16 per over.
On Friday, the 14-year-old left carnage in his wake, smashing 11 boundaries and clearing the rope an astonishing 15 times as he plundered 134 of his runs through fours and sixes alone.
In one remarkable over, Suryavanshi faced five deliveries and still extracted 30 runs from them.
Suryavanshi shot to fame in the Indian Premier League this year when he became the youngest player to bring up a century in men's T20 cricket in what was just his third innings.
At 14 years and 232 days, Suryavanshi has now etched his name into cricket history as the youngest player to hit a century for a men's national team, turning what should have been a routine group match into a record-breaking spectacle.
The teenager's assault had India A cruising toward an unthinkable 300-plus total before he was finally caught in the 13th over. However, captain Jitesh Sharma ensured no momentum was lost, clubbing an unbeaten 83 off 32 balls.
Suryavanshi batted in a single gear throughout his innings, and the UAE left-arm spinner Harshit Kaushik was at the receiving end of the Indian's aggression.
Kaushik, who came to bowl in the 11th over, was punished for four sixes and a four as a total 30 runs cascaded.
Suryavanshi was cruising at a strike rate of 348 at that time and eventually he fell to off-spinner Mohammed Farazuddin, skying a catch to Ahmed Tariq in the deep.
India were 195 for three in 12.3 overs then. His dismissal temporarily slowed down India, but Jitesh picked up the speed quickly.
Jitesh reached his fifty in 24 balls with a six off Arfan, then waded into the pacer in the 19th over, smashing him for 6, 4, 4, 6 ad 6 as 28 runs were plundered.
The record for the fastest century by an Indian batter in T20s is jointly held by Indian opener and world No 1 T20I batter Abhishek Sharma and Gujarat's Urvil Patel, who both had scored 28-ball tons in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy in 2024-25.
The batting prodigy served notice of his talent in July by scoring his first century in an Under-19 one-day international, smashing 143 off 78 balls against England in Worcester.
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