Vaibhav Sooryavanshi responds to R Ashwin who teased RR sensation with a playful lack of 4s comment originally appeared on Cricket News. Add Cricket News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
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R Ashwin commented on Vaibhav Sooryavanshi hitting fewer fours in the IPL 2026 campaign.
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Sooryavanshi came up with the perfect answer for Ashwin’s quip.
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Sooryavanshi won the Orange Cap award at the age of just 15 years.
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Former India international spinner and ex-RR star R Ashwin, like many cricket fans and experts, were simply mesmerised by the magic that Vaibhav Sooryavanshi produced during the IPL 2026 campaign.
The 15-year-old RR opener played like a seasoned pro and scored 776 runs, which made his the youngest player in the history of IPL to win the Orange Cap.
On his way to 776 runs, Sooryavanshi hit more sixes than boundaries, as he had 72 maximums to his name, compared to 63 fours. During the season, he also broke Chris Gayle’s 13-year-old record of hitting the most sixes in an IPL season. The West Indian had hit 59 maximums.
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After Sooryavanshi swept awards at the end of the IPL 2026 campaign, his former RR team-mate, Ashwin, made a playful comment about the lack of fours hit by Sooryavanshi in the season. He jokingly said that the only award that Sooryavanshi did not win was for hitting the maximum fours in the season.
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To Ashwin’s comment, Sooryavanshi had the perfect answer as he suggested that the only reason he had hit more sixes was that the format and the team demanded that kind of batting from him.
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He further claimed that he has already started practising with red-ball and is also ready to play more on the ground instead of constantly hitting out of the park as he aims to break into the Indian ODI side, ahead of the 2027 ODI World Cup.
Sooryavanshi said: “Yes, I will have to play on the ground because the next assignment is in a one-day format. I have practised a lot with a red ball, but no one has seen me do that, but they will soon.
“People think I love to hit every ball, but this is the T20 format, and coaches give me a free hand to go all guns blazing. And I hit the ball only because I know I can hit them, and it isn’t out of compulsion.”
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Indian cricket has always found its identity in the connection between generations. Like the passing of a torch from one legend to another.
After Gavaskar, India found its new hero in Sachin Tendulkar and after more than two decades of dominating world cricket, the ‘God of Cricket’ passed the baton on to Virat Kohli, and now the next champion in line seems to be Sooryavanshi, who is destined to become Indian cricket’s new poster boy.
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