India, May 28 -- Rajasthan Royals' star batter Vaibhav Sooryavanshi on Wednesday narrowly missed registering the fastest century in the Indian Premier League history during his team's Eliminator clash against Sunrisers Hyderabad here, but broke Chris Gayle's record of most sixes in an edition.

The 15-year-old Sooryavanshi, playing in his second season of the world's most lucrative T20 league, was just one hit away from reaching triple figures when reached 97 off 28 balls.

But he missed achieving the feat of fastest IPL century by just one ball as he, in the next ball, played an upper-cut off a short ball from Praful Hinge, which flew to R Smaran at deep third man. Sooryavanshi walked off for 97 off 29 balls after hammering 12 sixes and ...