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'Don Bradman of T20 cricket': Vaibhav Sooryavanshi leaves Tom Moody dazzled after destroying SRH in IPL 2026 Eliminator originally appeared on Cricket News. Add Cricket News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- Vaibhav Sooryavanshi hit 97 off 29 balls, breaking Chris Gayle's 12-year IPL sixes record.
- Out of his 12 maximums, four came against SRH captain Pat Cummins.
- Tom Moody compared his dominance to Sir Donald Bradman's greatness.
Why did Tom Moody compare Vaibhav Sooryavanshi to Don Bradman?
Australia great Tom Moody compared Vaibhav Sooryavanshi to the legendary figure of Don Bradman after he scored 97 off 29 balls, having struck 12 sixes and 5 fours in an innings that carried his side into Qualifier 2.
The teenager has now hit 65 maximums across this IPL season, surpassing the 59 that Chris Gayle hit in 2012, a record that had stood for over a decade.
What gives this innings extra weight is the quality of the attack Sooryavanshi dismantled, led by World Cup winner Pat Cummins. This was a knockout fixture against a bowling line-up that had won SRH nine league games. Yet, he made it look like a net session.
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What did Tom Moody say about Vaibhav Sooryavanshi while comparing him to Don Bradman?
Moody, who was on the expert panel on ESPNcricinfo, said he found himself struggling to explain what he was watching in a way that did it justice.
“I’m sort of trying to get my head around how to explain it. The only way to explain it is to ask someone to watch it and come up with their own description, because we’re witnessing something I don’t think we’ve seen in our lifetime in this format of the game, or even any format of the game. We’ve seen amazing things, but not to this extreme," Moody said.
Moody then reached back to Sir Donald Bradman, the batter whose Test average of just under 100 sits in a universe of its own.
"The only thing I can take it back to is what Bradman was doing, Bradman nearly averaged 100 in Test cricket, and the drop-off to the next best was around 60, so that’s the separation we’re talking about. It’s that in T20 cricket at the age of 15," he added.
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The Cricket News Opinion: The Bradman comparison is bold, but Moody is not wrong
We have usually seen that cricket comparisons to Bradman are usually lazy shorthand for a "very good batter." However, Moody is using it differently and more precisely.
Nobody else in IPL 2026 is operating at a strike rate above 240 across 15 matches. Nobody else has 65 sixes. Nobody else is making Pat Cummins look like a club bowler in a knockout game at fifteen.
The Bradman parallel is not about placing Sooryavanshi in the pantheon of all-time greats, but a genuine acknowledgement that what we are watching is without comparison in the modern game.
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