Asia Cup Rising Stars: Vaibhav Suryavanshi hits 32-ball hundred on India A debut against UAE

Only Abhishek Sharma and Urvil Patel have scored faster hundreds than Vaibhav Suryavanshi in T20 cricket.

What a talent! Vaibhav Suryavanshi is generational. Day after day, the 14-year-old continues to prove it again. Making his India A debut in the 2025 Asia Cup Rising Star, Vaibhav scored a 32-ball hundred against a full-strength United Arab Emirates (UAE) team.

Vaibhav Suryavanshi stuns with a 32-ball hundred

Dropped on the first ball of the match, Suryavanshi made UAE pay big time. After hitting 10 boundaries (4 sixes and 6 fours), the 14-year-old brought up his half-century in just 17 balls. Considering the fact that the UAE were playing the Asia Cup a few days ago and gave a tough time to Pakistan, who would have thought that Suryavanshi would demolish their bowlers?

But that’s exactly what happened. His onslaught may have been ended on the last ball of the powerplay when he was batting on 56 off 19, but Suryavanshi was dropped once again. That proved to be way too fatal for the UAE. In his next 15 balls, the teenager scored 50 runs, including 4 fours and 5 sixes, to bring up his maiden hundred for India A in just 32 balls.

Suryavanshi continued to smash the ball. But the party stopped with the youngster just 6 runs away from his 150. When Ahmed Tariq finally caught him off Muhammad Farazuddin, he had scored 144 from 42 balls and ended with a mind-blowing strike rate of 342.86.

Coming in from a quickfire 93 against Meghalaya in the Ranji Trophy, the 14-year-old was in form. Such was his performance for India Under-19 and in domestic cricket that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) thought it was time to promote Suryavanshi to the ‘A’ team. And he’s proven the selectors right already.

This fifty should be enough to show the world that the 14-year-old belongs at this level. He’ll face Pakistan A next, which should test him more. But he’s already shown that if he was unnerved in the Indian Premier League (IPL), India A isn’t a tough gravy for him.

Fastest T20 hundred by an Indian

• 28 Balls – Abhishek Sharma (Punjab v Meghalaya)
• 28 Balls – Urvil Patel (Gujarat v Tripura)
• 32 Balls – Rishabh Pant (Delhi v Himachal Pradesh)
• 32 Balls – Vaibhav Suryavanshi (India A vs UAE)
• 35 Balls – Rohit Sharma (India v Sri Lanka)
• 35 Balls – Vaibhav Suryavanshi (RR vs GT)