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Sport
Rakesh Roshan and Sourav Modak | TNN

Youngest IPL crorepati: Bihar's 13-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi breaks records in IPL Auction 2025

PATNA/KOLKATA: A 13-year-old teen who doesn't talk much but lets his bat do all the talking was snapped by Rajasthan Royals for Rs 1.10 crore after an intense bidding at the IPL auction, making him the youngest player to play the world's biggest cricket league.

On Monday evening, at faraway Jeddah, the young Bihar prodigy's name, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, was engraved on the annals of Indian Premier League (IPL) when he became the youngest player ever at the age of 13 years and 243 days to land an IPL contract.

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