Was injustice done to Vaibhav Suryavanshi? Scored fifty in 15 balls, did not get player of the match award

New Delhi: Vaibhav Suryavanshi made a splash in the very first match for Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2026. In the match against Chennai Super Kings, Vaibhav batted in an explosive manner and played a brilliant inning of 52 runs in just 17 balls. In this innings, he also hit 5 sixes and 4 fours, but despite this he could not become the player of the match for Rajasthan. However, apart from Player of the Match, Vaibhav definitely got the trophies of Super Striker of the Match, Super Sixes of the Match and Super Four of the Match.

Rajasthan fast bowler Nandre Berger was chosen player of the match in the match against CSK. He took the wickets of Sanju Samson and Ayush Mhatre for 26 runs in 4 overs against CSK. Due to this initial success of Nandre Burger, CSK team went on the backfoot in the power play itself, due to which it could not make a comeback. This is the reason why Nandre Berger was chosen as the player of the match and not Vaibhav Suryavanshi.

Rajasthan won the match by 8 wickets

Talking about the match against CSK, Rajasthan Royals team won by 8 wickets. In the match, Rajasthan captain Riyan Parag had asked CSK to bat first after winning the toss. CSK had a very bad start in batting and lost four wickets in the power play itself.

After this, Rajasthan team did not give even a single chance to CSK to make a comeback. However, despite a bad start, CSK somehow managed to reach the score of 127 runs with the struggling innings of 43 runs by number 8 batsman Jamie Overton. In response to this score of CSK, Rajasthan team achieved the target by scoring 128 runs in 12.1 overs. Apart from Vaibhav, Yashasvi Jaiswal also played an unbeaten inning of 38 runs in 36 balls for Rajasthan.