15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi named in TIME’s 2026 Rising Stars list
- 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has made TIME’s 2026 TIME100 Next list of 100 emerging figures.
- The Bihar-born cricketer is the youngest person and only Indian athlete on the list, under the ‘Phenom’ category.
- He scored a 35-ball IPL century and finished IPL 2026 with 776 runs and a record 72 sixes.
- In July, he became India’s youngest male cricketer and is now part of the Asian Games squad in Japan.
Source: indiatoday.in
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