MUMBAI, Aug. 23 -- Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scored 432 of his runs in IPL 2026 without running a single one of them. Seventy-two sixes in sixteen innings, more than any batter has hit in a season of this tournament, and he was fifteen years old while doing it.

That is the most useful entry point into IPL stats after the 2026 season, because it is one of the very few numbers that actually moved. Most of the all-time records did not. Chris Gayle still owns the highest individual score, thirteen years after he made it. Virat Kohli still owns the career run aggregate and the single-season one. What changed in 2026 was not the ceiling on any of those lists. It was the arithmetic of how a Twenty20 innings gets built, and a teenager did most of the...