Mullapur: As the saying goes, one hundred alone.

Vaibhav Suryavanshi did a hundred. His rampage stopped three runs before that. But Sunrisers Hyderabad were hit by a deluge of 15-year-old wonderkids. Sunrisers Hyderabad’s journey ended in the eliminator. Rajasthan Royals reached Qualifier 2 by winning the match by 47 runs. Gujarat Titans fight with them there.

Gujarat Titans skipper Shubman Gill had to suffer with the fielding after winning the toss on Tuesday. The match is lost. Pat Cummins suffered the same fate on Wednesday. He won the toss and took the fielding. Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Yasswi Jaiswal added 126 runs in 8 overs to turn the match.

Pat Cummins got off to a flying start with a boundary over long off in the first over. Yasswi Jaiswal took a single off the first ball of Pat Cummins’ second over. Vaibhav returns to strike. The next ball is a boundary. Cummins wides the next ball. Three sixes were to be digested in the next three balls. The first is over long on. Next is an uppercut over third man. The last over the head of Cummins himself.

Age of the killer? Just 15 years. Vaibhav Suryavanshi batted similarly in the IPL Eliminator on Wednesday. Sunrisers Hyderabad’s bowling was single-handedly destroyed.

Vaibhav made 97 off 29 balls to open the innings! His storm ended just three runs short of the century. What he did before, mesmerized the entire cricket world. 5 fours and 12 sixes. Chris Gayle’s record was broken. Earlier, Gayle had the precedent of hitting the most sixes in a single season in the IPL. Galle hit 59 sixes in 2012. 65 sixes became the glory.

The wonder-teenager also broke a record of Australia’s David Warner. In 2016, Warner scored 467 runs between 1 and 6 overs of the power play. Glory passed him. Vaibhav also shared the feat of hitting ten or more sixes in an IPL innings. Both have set this precedent four times. Vaibhav also has the most sixes in an innings in the IPL Knock Out phase. Among such cricketers who have not played in international cricket, one of the highest run scorers in IPL is Vaibhav. He scored a half-century off 16 balls IPLSuresh Raina’s feat of scoring the fastest half-century touched Vaibhav. Vaibhav was out on the 29th ball. But a boundary would have broken Gayle’s record for fastest century.

Chasing 244 runs, Hyderabad finished with 196 runs in 19.2 overs. 3 wickets for Jofra Archer.