India, May 28 -- Rajasthan Royals are through to the IPL 2026 Qualifier 2, and a 15-year-old from Samastipur made sure of it before the game was three overs old.

Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and chose to bowl first. It looked, for a moment, like a reasonable decision. Pat Cummins steaming in, a crunch knockout game, and across the wicket stood a teenager who has not yet sat his Class 10 boards. By the time Praful Hinge had him caught at long-on in the eighth over, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi had already made the result academic.

Rajasthan Royals finished on 243/8 in 20 overs. The game was settled far earlier. By the end of the powerplay, RR had 80 runs on the board without losing a wicket, a platform built almost entirely by one left-hande...