{"id":173501,"date":"2026-05-28T02:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=173501"},"modified":"2026-05-28T02:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:35:21","slug":"video-sooryavanshi-watches-the-ball-not-the-bowler-rrs-jurel-after-ipl-eliminator-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=173501","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | Sooryavanshi watches the ball, not the bowler: RR\u2019s Jurel after IPL Eliminator win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71032217\">It is normal for a teenager to play the bowler and not the ball but Vaibhav Sooryanshi doesn\u2019t care about who he is facing, his Rajasthan Royals teammate Dhruv Jurel pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-year-old has cared little for reputation all through this IPL whether it is having a go at Jasprit Bumrah or more recently at Pat Cummins. The list of champion bowlers who have been at the receiving end of Sooryavanshi\u2019s onslaught include Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood and Kagiso Rabada.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, he made Cummins, a multiple time World Cup winner and among the shrewdest operators in the game, look clueless with his barrage of sixes.<\/p>\n<p>Cummins tried to curtail his free flowing bat swing by bowling full into the leg-stump but Sooryavanshi made instant adjustments to dispatch the ball over the Australian\u2019s head. The subsequent short ball was slashed over third man while the next delivery, a slower ball, was smoked down the ground. Cummins had run out of ideas in the third over.<\/p>\n<p>Sooryavanshi ended up with a matching-defining 97 off 29 balls, just one hit away from breaking Chris Gayle\u2019s record for the fastest IPL hundred. Jurel, who has seen Sooryavanshi from close quarters, made his observations about the wonder kid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best thing about Vaibhav that I have noticed is that he doesn\u2019t plan anything because he practices a lot and he always backs himself. That\u2019s what he does every time he goes out and plays. The best thing about him is that he backs himself. He doesn\u2019t even have a shadow of doubt that \u2018I am not able to do it\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jurel, himself in top form with six fifties in the competition, mentioned another aspect of his younger colleague\u2019s batting that makes him one of a kind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we go to an academy, (we\u2019re told) \u2018Don\u2019t watch the bowler, watch the ball. As 17-year-olds, we always watch the bowler, (and think) he\u2019s a big name. But really, he just watches the ball. That\u2019s all. His mantra is \u2018I don\u2019t give a damn about any bowler\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>What Sooryavanshi is doing is freakish<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Even Sunrisers Hyderabad was to quick to applaud his special knock in the Eliminator. Assistant coach James Franklin spoke on how their plans for Sooryavanshi came to nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a very, very small margin where you could bowl to him. I guess when you\u2019re playing on a really good pitch as well, it makes it particularly hard for bowlers to try and execute that tiny margin that you\u2019re looking for,\u201d Franklin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you probably saw in the first couple of overs of the Powerplay that we were trying to bowl quite full, sort of inside leg stump, trying to get under his swing. But he started to work that out.\u201d Sooryavanshi hammered 12 sixes in an innings to remember, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/vaibhav-sooryavanshi-record-most-sixes-stats-ipl-rajasthan-royals-chris-gayle\/article71029488.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surpassing Gayle for most sixes in a season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin, a former fast bowler from New Zealand, said the world has not seen a talent like Sooryavanshi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone\u2019s ever seen a talent like this. It\u2019s freakish what he\u2019s doing at the moment. To think that he\u2019s potentially got 25 years left in the career is quite scary. He\u2019s only going to get better, he\u2019s only going to get stronger, he\u2019s only going to get more mature with how he bats,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on May 28, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/videos\/watch-video-dhruv-jurel-praises-vaibhav-sooryavanshi-breaks-records-ipl-2026-eliminator-rr-vs-srh\/article71032217.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is normal for a teenager to play the bowler and not the ball but Vaibhav Sooryanshi doesn\u2019t care about who he is facing, his Rajasthan Royals teammate Dhruv Jurel pointed out. The 15-year-old has cared little for reputation all through this IPL whether it is having a go at Jasprit Bumrah or more recently &#8230; <a title=\"VIDEO | Sooryavanshi watches the ball, not the bowler: RR\u2019s Jurel after IPL Eliminator win\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=173501\" aria-label=\"Read more about VIDEO | Sooryavanshi watches the ball, not the bowler: RR\u2019s Jurel after IPL Eliminator win\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20_RVM_5559.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":173525,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=173525","url_meta":{"origin":173501,"position":0},"title":"Vaibhav Sooryavanshi hailed as a once-in-a-lifetime talent after IPL blitz &#8211; Al Jazeera","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"May 28, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Vaibhav Sooryavanshi hailed as a once-in-a-lifetime talent after IPL blitz\u00a0\u00a0Al JazeeraVaibhav Sooryavanshi breaks Chris Gayle's record for most sixes in an IPL season\u00a0\u00a0ESPNcricinfoIPL Pulse: Age no bar\u00a0\u00a0CricbuzzVaibhav Sooryavanshi 'doesn't give a damn about any bowler', Dhruv Jurel reveals teen's batting mantra\u00a0\u00a0The Times of IndiaIPL 2026 | The two worlds of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;National News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"National News","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/J6_coFbogxhRI9iM864NL_liGXvsQp2AupsKei7z0cNNfDvGUmWUy20nuUhkREQyrpY4bEeIBucs0-w300-rw.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":174014,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=174014","url_meta":{"origin":173501,"position":1},"title":"GT vs RR, IPL 2026: Three key battles that could decide Qualifier 2","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"May 29, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Gujarat Titans and Rajasthan Royals will look to advance their IPL 2026 title hopes by advancing from Qualifier 2 in New Chandigarh on May 29. 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