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Indian cricketer (born 2011)
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, also spelled Vaibhav Suryavanshi, is an Indian cricketer. He is a left-handed top order batter and an occasional slow left-arm orthodox bowler. He made his international debut for the Indian cricket team in the T20I series against England in July 2026. At 15 years and 99 days of age, he is the youngest player to represent the Indian team.
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Asian multi-sport event
The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years for athletes of Asia. The Games were regulated by Asian Games Federation from the first Games in New Delhi, India in 1951, until the 1978 Games. Since the 1982 Games, they have been organized by the Olympic Council of Asia, after the breakup of the Asian Games Federation. The Games are recognized by the International Olympic Committee and are the second largest multi-sport event after the Olympic Games.
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Team sport played with a bat and ball
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a 22-yard pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. Two players from the batting team, the striker and nonstriker, stand in front of either wicket holding bats, while one player from the fielding team, the bowler, bowls the ball toward the striker's wicket from the opposite end of the pitch.
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Rahmat Shah made history on his first outing as Afghanistan’s Test captain, scoring a century against Bangladesh in the one-off Test at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Sunday. His 105-run knock made him the first Afghan cricketer to score a hundred on his Test captaincy debut.
South Africa’s Luan-Dre Pretorius holds the record for the youngest T20I century-maker after his 2026 hundred against Namibia.