Rajasthan Royals opener Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scored the fastest and most explosive 97 runs in IPL history, achieving this off just 29 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL Eliminator at Mullanpur on Wednesday. His blistering knock featured five fours and 12 sixes, coming at an incredible strike rate of 334.48.

 

Punjab Kings’ Shreyas Iyer had held the previous record of hitting 97 runs in 42 deliveries against Gujarat Titans. Sanju Samson of Rajasthan Royals had hit 97 runs off 50 balls, while Quinton de Kock took more than 50 balls to get to 97 runs.