Youngest Half Centurions In IPL

Youngest half centurions in IPL [Source: AP Photos]

The IPL, often hailed as T20 cricket’s grandest stage, has long served as a launchpad for young talents to announce themselves to the world. Amidst the glamour and intensity, several prodigious Indian batters have risen to the occasion by notching up remarkable batting performances at young ages. Such fearless batting exhibitions not only captured headlines but also signaled the arrival of those youngsters into the mainstream cricketing world.

Here, we will take a look at some of the youngest IPL cricketers in history to have registered a fifty-plus score in the tournament.

4. Prithvi Shaw – 18 years and 169 days

In just the second match of his IPL career, Prithvi Shaw smashed 62 runs from 44 balls, doing so against the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in match 26 of the 2018 season. Opening the innings for Delhi Daredevils (now Capitals) alongside Colin Munro, Shaw clattered seven boundaries and two sixes in the innings as his team mounted 219-4 from 20 overs.

Aged 18 years and 169 days at the time, the dashing right-handed opening batter became one of the youngest cricketers in IPL history to score a half-century.

3. Sanju Samson – 18 years and 169 days

A Rajasthan Royals product through and through, Sanju Samson blazed his team to an emphatic four-wicket victory against RCB, as a teenager. Playing his first IPL season back in 2013, Samson helped Rajasthan pull off a 172-run chase by cracking 63 runs from just 41 balls with seven boundaries and two huge sixes at Jaipur’s Sawai Mansingh Stadium.

Batting at number three, the charismatic right-hander took on the likes of RP Singh, Jaydev Unadkat, Vinay Kumar head-on to bag the ‘Player of the Match’ award. He was 18 years and 169 days at the time to become IPL’s youngest half-centurion.

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2. Riyan Parag – 17 years and 175 days

Riyan Parag registered his first half-century in the IPL at the age of 17 years and 175 days back in 2019. Unlike other batters on this list, Parag’s knock was anything but flashy, as the then-teenage sensation was forced to employ caution as each of his Rajasthan Royals teammates crumbled like nine pins against the Delhi Capitals bowlers.

Batting at number six and arriving at the crease at 30-4 inside the powerplay, Parag bided his time across 49 deliveries to score 50 runs, laced with four fours and two sixes, in Delhi. His innings helped Rajasthan Royals post a respectable 115-9, having once headed for a much worse collapse. The Capitals ended up winning the match by five wickets in 16.1 overs.

1. Vaibhav Suryavanshi – 14 years and 32 days

Vaibhav Suryavanshi, aged 14 years and 32 days by the time of playing only his third IPL match in the 2025 season, rained down 11 huge sixes and seven boundaries against Gujarat Titans bowlers at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium. The teenager tonked his maiden half-century in the game to become IPL’s youngest fifty-plus scorer by a landslide. Suryavanshi ended up converting it into a splendid 35-ball century, the second fastest in the history of the tournament.