Apart from the total numbers, the frenzy over Sooryavanshi additionally comes from the listing of prime bowlers he has taken down. From Jasprit Bumrah, Josh Hazlewood and Matt Henry, to Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh and Marco Jansen, all the bowlers have felt the warmth of Sooryavanshi’s onslaught.
The beautiful high quality of Sooryavanshi’s T20 batting is evident from his numbers against moderately skilled worldwide bowlers. Against bowlers who’ve performed, or went on to play, a minimum of 20 T20Is, he has scored 315 runs from 133 balls in the IPL; the strike charge of 236.84 is marginally greater than his total IPL strike charge. Sooryavanshi has additionally averaged 52.50 against these bowlers, additionally greater than his total IPL common of 41.09.
Let’s look at the stats for different uncapped batters in their first 11 innings, against capped bowlers who went on to play a minimum of 20 internationals. Taking a reduce-off of a minimum of 10 balls confronted against such bowlers, Sooryavanshi’s strike charge of almost 237 is the highest. If we improve the reduce-off to 75 balls, then there are 36 such uncapped batters. But the gulf between Sooryavanshi’s strike charge and the subsequent best is huge: Priyansh Arya’s 181.72 is second, adopted by Ayush Mhatre’s 177.53.
The scatterplot for a few of these batters, plotting common and strike charge, signifies how far forward of everybody else Sooryavanshi is in phrases of strike charge. There are a few others who’ve averaged 50 or extra against these bowlers, however none who’s anyplace close to his strike charge. Batters like Ishan Kishan, Devdutt Padikkal and Karun Nair, on the different hand, struggled against this set of bowlers in their early, uncapped intervals.
Sooryavanshi’s jaw-dropping six-hitting talents are clear from these stats as properly. Against these capped bowlers, he has hit 32 sixes from 133 balls – that is a charge of a six each 4.16 deliveries. In this listing of 36 batters, the subsequent in line is Arya’s 6.64, which suggests Sooryavanshi is about 37% higher in this facet than the second best.
Even in this age of frenetic six-hitting, Sooryavanshi has taken that ability to a different stage: in the final two IPL seasons, amongst the 14 openers who’ve scored a minimum of 400 runs, he leads each in phrases of strike charge and in frequency of six-hitting. In truth, Sooryavanshi is the just one hanging at over 200, and averaging fewer than 5 balls per six. No different opener in this listing, not even Abhishek Sharma, averages beneath seven balls per six.
All of these unimaginable numbers stem from an intent to attain boundaries as usually as attainable. Sooryavanshi’s boundary intent in these 11 IPL innings is 58.4%. Only Abhishek, at 58.5%, is marginally forward, amongst these 14 openers in IPL 2025 and 2026. However, Sooryavanshi will get extra bang for the buck: off the deliveries that he makes an attempt boundaries, he strikes at 347.8, the highest amongst these openers.
In simply 22 T20 innings and 418 balls, Sooryavanshi has scored 901 runs and struck 80 sixes. Currently, the document for the quickest to 1000 T20 runs is 533 deliveries, by Mitchell Owen, whereas Kieron Pollard is the quickest to 100 T20 sixes (843 balls). Sooryavanshi is properly on his technique to breaking each these data.
With inputs from Shiva Jayaraman and Sampath Bandarupalli
S Rajesh is stats editor of ESPNcricinfo. @rajeshstats
