PM Modi meets cricketing prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi in Patna

Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared a heartwarming moment at Patna airport when he met 14-year-old cricket prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi and his family.

The young talent has been making headlines with his remarkable performances in the 2025 Indian Premier League (IPL) season.

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

Posting on the social media platform X, PM Modi praised the teenager’s skills, saying, “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.”

Suryavanshi, representing the Rajasthan Royals (RR) this season, has emerged as one of the standout stars. In just seven matches, the teenager scored 252 runs, but it was his sensational century against Gujarat Titans (GT) in Jaipur that truly captured attention. Displaying a maturity beyond his years, Suryavanshi smashed 101 runs off only 38 balls, becoming the youngest centurion in men’s T20 cricket history. His 35-ball century now ranks as the second-fastest in IPL history—an extraordinary achievement for someone just 14 years old.

That historic innings saw Suryavanshi break multiple records:

- It is the seventh-fastest century in T20 cricket, with the fastest being Sahil Chauhan’s 27-ball ton for Estonia against Cyprus in 2024.

- He reached his fifty in 17 balls, the fifth-fastest in IPL history, making him the youngest player to hit an IPL fifty.

- Suryavanshi scored 94 runs through boundaries, including seven fours and 11 sixes, marking the highest boundary percentage (93%) in any IPL century.

- He tied with former Indian batsman Murali Vijay for the most sixes by an Indian in a single IPL innings, with 11 sixes each; the record is held overall by Chris Gayle with 17 sixes in a 175* innings.

- The 166-run partnership between Vaibhav and Yashasvi Jaiswal is the highest for any wicket for Rajasthan Royals, surpassing the previous 155-run record by Jos Buttler and Devdutt Padikkal in 2022.

- Suryavanshi reached his maiden IPL century in just three innings, faster than Punjab Kings players Priyansh Arya and Paul Valthaty, who took four innings each, according to Wisden.com.

The Prime Minister’s meeting with Vaibhav Suryavanshi marks another special moment in the young cricketer’s meteoric rise in Indian cricket.