The final of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2026 is being played between India and England. In this match, Vaibhav Suryavanshi has scored a century in explosive style. He completed his century in 55 balls in the final match, which is the fastest century scored in the final match of Under-19 World Cup. Suryavanshi was being trolled for his poor batting in the previous matches, but in the final he played a historic innings and destroyed the England bowlers.

Vaibhav Suryavanshi created history

14 year old Vaibhav Suryavanshi has become the batsman to score the fastest century in the history of Under-19 World Cup final. Apart from this, this is also the second fastest century in the history of Under-19 World Cup. The world record for the fastest century in the World Cup is in the name of Australia’s Will Malajuk, but the world record for the fastest century in the final is now in the name of Suryavanshi.

He is only the third Indian batsman to score a century in the Under-19 World Cup final. Before him, Unmukt Chand (2012) and Manjot Kalra (2018) had done this. Suryavanshi has set a string of records in the match, as he has also become the batsman to hit the most sixes in an innings of an Under-19 World Cup match. By hitting 15 sixes in this innings, he broke the record of Australia’s Michael Hill, who had achieved the feat of hitting 12 sixes in a single innings.

15 sixes, 15 fours

Vaibhav Suryavanshi played an innings of 175 runs playing 80 balls in this match. In this innings played at a stormy strike rate of 218.75, only 15 fours and 15 sixes came off his bat. He scored 150 runs only from boundaries. Vaibhav has now gone to the top in terms of scoring most runs in this World Cup. He has scored 439 runs in 7 innings at an excellent average of 62.71, in which he scored one century and 3 half-centuries.