Guwahati game survived hail
Rain and hail delayed play for two-and-a-half hours in Guwahati and the match was cut to 11 overs per side, yet Rajasthan Royals’ openers still turned the shortened game into a batting spectacle. The fixture also produced a headline moment when a teenager unexpectedly troubled Jasprit Bumrah, one of opening week’s standout incidents. (rediff.com)
The game in Guwahati looked finished before it really began, because rain and hail pushed the toss back by about two and a half hours and chopped the match down to 11 overs a side. Rajasthan Royals still made 150 for 3, which is the kind of total teams usually target in a full 20-over innings. (espncricinfo.com, apnews.com) That happened because Yashasvi Jaiswal and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi treated the shortened game like a batting sprint, adding 80 runs in the first 30 balls. In an 11-over match, five overs is nearly half the innings, so that opening burst decided almost everything. (rediff.com, espncricinfo.com) Jaiswal stayed unbeaten on 77 from 32 balls with 10 fours and 4 sixes, and he was named player of the match. His strike rate was 240.62, which means he scored at well over two runs a ball from start to finish. (espncricinfo.com, apnews.com) The jolt everyone noticed came from Sooryavanshi, who is 15 and already swings like he is late for a train. He made 39 from 14 balls, hit 5 sixes, and one of them came off the first ball he faced from Jasprit Bumrah. (espncricinfo.com, espncricinfo.com) Bumrah is the bowler batters usually try to survive, not attack, and that is why the over stood out so sharply. Sooryavanshi hit him for two sixes in the same over, while Bumrah finished with 0 for 32 from 3 overs and stayed wicketless through his first three matches of the season. (rediff.com, espncricinfo.com) This was not a random cameo from an unknown kid. ESPNcricinfo lists Sooryavanshi as 14 in its player profile because he became the youngest centurion in men’s Twenty20 cricket in 2025, and Reuters reported on March 31, 2026 that he had just turned 15 before smashing a 15-ball fifty against Chennai Super Kings. (espncricinfo.com, aljazeera.com) Rajasthan Royals have built this top order to hit immediately, and Guwahati has become the stage where that plan looks loudest. The franchise had already opened its season there with Sooryavanshi’s 15-ball fifty on March 30, then returned on April 7 and watched him take on the best fast bowler in the league inside a match shortened by weather. (aljazeera.com, espncricinfo.com) Mumbai Indians were chasing 151 in 11 overs, which meant they needed 13.72 runs an over from ball one. They finished on 123 for 9 and lost by 27 runs, because once Rajasthan Royals turned the game into a power-hitting contest, Mumbai never caught up. (espncricinfo.com, apnews.com) So the night ended with two separate headlines sitting on top of each other. One was that a hail-hit match in Assam still produced 273 runs in 22 overs; the other was that a teenager from Bihar walked at Bumrah and made that feel normal for a few minutes. (apnews.com, rediff.com)
