Overview
- Suryavanshi blasted 144 off 42 balls in Doha with 15 sixes and 11 fours at a strike rate of about 342.86, reaching fifty in 17 balls and three figures in 32.
- His century is joint third-fastest by an Indian in men’s T20s, equalling Rishabh Pant’s 32-ball mark and trailing only Urvil Patel and Abhishek Sharma (both 28 balls).
- India A posted 297/4 with captain Jitesh Sharma unbeaten on 83 off 32, then restricted UAE to 149/7 to clinch a 148-run victory in their Rising Stars/Asia Cup opener.
- At 14 years and 232 days, he became the youngest to hit a century for a men’s national representative side and the first to score a T20 hundred for India A.
- The knock also made him the only player with two T20 centuries in 35 balls or fewer after his 35-ball IPL ton earlier this year, as pundits publicly urged a rapid senior call-up without any official move announced.