IPL Auction 2025: 13-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi from Bihar created history on Monday when he signed for Rs 1.1 crore by Rajasthan Royals in Jeddah. Follow IPL Auction Live Updates Suryavanshi ended a bidding war between the Royals and Delhi Capitals, becoming the youngest player to be signed in IPL history at 13 years and 243 days old.

It was on Saturday that the young Suryavanshi made his Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy debut for Bihar against Rajasthan in Rajkot. He hit left-handed pacer Aniket Choudhary for 26 and then hit a six before being dismissed for 13. The young man recently made headlines when he became the youngest batsman (13 years and 288 days) to score a world century.

He achieved the feat in a youth Test between India U-19 and Australia U-19 in Chennai. Vaibhav scored 104 off 62 balls in India’s U-19 youth friendly against Australia in Chennai. The left-hander scored his century off 58 balls, the fastest to score a youth Test hundred by an Indian player and the second-fastest in the world overall.

Advertisement Read: Everything you need to know about Suryavanshi’s career Suryavanshi first made headlines this year when he made his Ranji Trophy debut for Bihar at the age of 12, becoming one of the youngest players to ever play in India’s premier first-class tournament.

Email Logo Subscribe to Sandeep Dvivedi’s weekly sports newsletter Sanjeev Suryawanshi is the son of a tragic cricketer father whose ambitions of sporting greatness were thwarted when he lived in Mumbai, but Vaibhav is now living the life his father couldn’t. Leading the way. Whether he was working as a bouncer in nightclubs, Sulabh toilets or Mumbai docks, or watching little kids play cricket at Maidan, Sanjeev had just one dream – for one of his children to become a cricketer.