5 awards — Sooryavanshi becomes first player to win five in one IPL season

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi won five major awards in IPL 2026 — Orange Cap, Most Valuable Player, Emerging Player of the Season, plus two others — at 15 years old. He's the first player in the tournament's history to collect five such honours in a single campaign.

Kagiso Rabada singled out the teenager's talent, saying he's a player who forces teams to drop their age-based playbooks. That kind of pressure from a peer matters.