{"id":22219,"date":"2025-04-19T21:42:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=589460"},"modified":"2025-04-19T21:42:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:12:40","slug":"waah-genz-ke-player-aakash-chopra-stunned-as-14-year-old-vaibhav-suryavanshi-smashes-six-on-debut-ball-in-ipl-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/waah-genz-ke-player-aakash-chopra-stunned-as-14-year-old-vaibhav-suryavanshi-smashes-six-on-debut-ball-in-ipl-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWaah GenZ ke player\u201d: Aakash Chopra stunned as 14-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi smashes six on debut ball in IPL 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"123\" data-end=\"377\">In a jaw-dropping moment during the IPL 2025 clash between Rajasthan Royals and Lucknow Super Giants, 14-year-old debutant Vaibhav Suryavanshi etched his name into history by becoming the youngest player ever to debut in the league \u2014 and did it in style.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"379\" data-end=\"693\">Facing his first ball at just 14 years and 23 days old, Suryavanshi showed zero nerves as he launched Shardul Thakur for a six over cover. It wasn\u2019t just the crowd that was stunned \u2014 even the commentators were left in awe. Aakash Chopra, reacting live, exclaimed, <strong data-start=\"643\" data-end=\"693\">\u201cWaah GenZ ke player! Yeh toh Gen Z shot tha.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"695\" data-end=\"892\">The ball, pitched on a good length around off, was carved effortlessly over cover. Even Rishabh Pant and Thakur were caught by surprise as the fearless youngster announced himself on the big stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"894\" data-end=\"1021\">With this, Suryavanshi surpassed Prayas Ray Barman to become the youngest ever IPL debutant. Here\u2019s a look at the updated list:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1023\" data-end=\"1050\"><strong data-start=\"1023\" data-end=\"1050\">Youngest IPL Debutants:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"1051\" data-end=\"1290\">\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"1051\" data-end=\"1102\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1053\" data-end=\"1102\">14y 23d \u2013 <em data-start=\"1063\" data-end=\"1102\">Vaibhav Suryavanshi (RR) vs LSG, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"1103\" data-end=\"1152\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1105\" data-end=\"1152\">16y 157d \u2013 Prayas Ray Barman (RCB) vs SRH, 2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"1153\" data-end=\"1200\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1155\" data-end=\"1200\">17y 11d \u2013 Mujeeb Ur Rahman (PBKS) vs DC, 2018<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"1201\" data-end=\"1243\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1203\" data-end=\"1243\">17y 152d \u2013 Riyan Parag (RR) vs CSK, 2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-start=\"1244\" data-end=\"1290\">\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1246\" data-end=\"1290\">17y 179d \u2013 Pradeep Sangwan (DC) vs CSK, 2008<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1292\" data-end=\"1327\">IPL just got a dose of Gen Z flair!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a jaw-dropping moment during the IPL 2025 clash between Rajasthan Royals and Lucknow Super Giants, 14-year-old debutant Vaibhav Suryavanshi\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}