India, April 29 -- Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has found the simplest answer to the strangest question around his remarkable IPL 2026 rise. After days of social media chatter over whether the Rajasthan Royals teenager's bat had an "AI chip" hidden inside it, the 15-year-old responded with a smile, a shrug of innocence, and a line that may travel as far as some of his sixes.

In a video posted by Rajasthan Royals on their X account, Sooryavanshi was asked directly: "Bat mein AI chip hai kya tumhare?" (Does your bat have an AI chip?) The question was not really about technology. It was about disbelief. It was about the kind of batting that makes people reach for impossible explanations because the obvious one feels too ordinary.

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