VHT: Suryavanshi slams 36-ball century, becomes youngest List A centurion

At 14 years and 272 days, Vaibhav Suryavanshi has become the youngest to score a century in men's List A cricket, achieving the feat on the opening day of the 2025-26 Vijay Hazare Trophy. This was only his seventh List A game, after debuting against Madhya Pradesh in December 2024.

Playing for Bihar against Arunachal Pradesh in a Plate League fixture in Ranchi, Suryavanshi got to his century - his first in senior cricket that wasn't in a T20 game - off just 36 deliveries. He went on to score the fastest 150 in men's List A cricket, off 59 balls. He was eventually dismissed for an 84-ball 190, which included 16 fours and 15 sixes.

Suryavanshi, who is in line to feature in India's Under-19 World Cup campaign in Zimbabwe and Namibia in January-February 2026, slammed a 95-ball 171 earlier this month at the T20 Under-19 Asia Cup in the UAE. During that innings, he fell just six short of Ambati Rayudu's long-standing India record score in youth one-dayers - the 177 against England in Taunton back in 2002.

In 15 youth ODIs, Suryavanshi averages 51.13, with two centuries and three half-centuries, at an impressive strike rate of 158.79.

Last month in Doha, Suryavanshi smashed the joint-third fastest century by an Indian in men's T20, when he hit a 42-ball 144 against UAE at the Rising Stars Asia Cup. He had got to his century off 32 deliveries that day, in the process recording the joint-sixth-fastest century in all men's T20s.

Hot on the heels of that tournament, Suryavanshi also became the youngest century-maker in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy when he scored an unbeaten 61-ball 108 against Maharashtra earlier this month in Kolkata.

Suryavanshi has had a breakthrough year in 2025. After becoming the youngest pick in an IPL auction at 13, he became the youngest to smash an IPL century, for Rajasthan Royals (101 off 38 balls) against Gujarat Titans. Suryavanshi featured in seven games in IPL 2025, hitting 252 runs at a strike rate of 206.55.

Since the IPL, Suryavanshi has gone on to hit centuries in youth fixtures England and Australia; the tour of England was particularly productive as he amassed 355 runs at a strike rate of 174.01.

It's likely Suryavanshi will only be available for the first few games of the Vijay Hazare Trophy before he joins the India Under-19 squad for a conditioning camp in Bengaluru prior to the team's departure to Zimbabwe for the World Cup starting January 15.