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Cricket: Fourteen-year-old hits six off first ball in Indian Premier League debut

# Cricket: Shy schoolboy Vaibhav Suryavanshi is in dreamland at just 14, having become the youngest player in Indian Premier League history and marking the occasion with an audacious first-ball six. The fearless young left-hander is being touted as a superstar in the making after his instant impact opening the batting for Rajasthan Royals, when he scored 34 off 20 balls, including three sixes and two fours. Suryavanshi comes from India’s poorest state, Bihar, and his father is a farmer and part-time journalist.