Vaibhav Suryavanshi Becomes Youngest Player to Score a Half-Century in Men’s T20 International Cricket

India’s 15-year-old batsman Vaibhav Suryavanshi has set a new world record in men’s T20 international cricket by scoring a half-century off just 18 balls against Zimbabwe. At the age of 15 years and 118 days, Suryavanshi became the youngest player to score a fifty in T20 international cricket. Under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, the Indian team comfortably chased down the target of 126 runs to win the first T20 match against Zimbabwe. 7 Shrawan, Kathmandu.

The young Indian batsman Vaibhav Suryavanshi established a new world record in T20 international cricket. In the first T20 international against Zimbabwe, he scored a half-century, becoming the youngest male player to achieve this feat in T20 internationals. Playing at the Harare ground, Suryavanshi reached his first T20 international half-century in just 18 balls at the age of 15 years and 118 days. He struck four boundaries and four sixes. India comfortably achieved the target of 126 runs with more than six overs to spare.

Previously, this record was held by Gibraltar’s Luis Bruce, who scored a half-century against Malta in 2021 at the age of 16 years and 56 days. Suryavanshi was selected for the Indian T20 squad for the first time last month for the series against Ireland and England. In the first three matches against England, he scored 14, 13, and 15 runs respectively. However, against Zimbabwe, he adopted an aggressive batting approach from the very first ball and played a historic innings.

After Indian bowlers restricted Zimbabwe to 125 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs, Suryavanshi’s aggressive batting secured an easy victory for India. Earlier, at the same Harare ground, he had played an explosive innings of 175 runs off 80 balls in the ICC Under-19 World Cup final held in January. With this win, Shreyas Iyer’s team also recorded its first victory in a T20 international. The second T20 international between India and Zimbabwe will take place at Harare on July 25.