The 49th league match of the IPL 2026 season was played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Punjab Kings at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad, in which SRH managed to win the match by 33 runs. In this match, Sunrisers Hyderabad team batted first and scored 235 runs in 20 overs, but Punjab Kings team managed to reach the score of 202 runs in 20 overs. However, in this match, 22-year-old batsman Cooper Connolly, playing for Punjab Kings, impressed everyone with his performance in which he managed to play an unbeaten inning of 107 runs. On the basis of his century, Connolly also made a big record in his name, in which he broke the 10 year old record of Quinton de Kock.
Connolly becomes the youngest foreign player to score a century in IPL
Cooper Connolly, a 22-year-old left-handed batsman from Australia, who is playing in the IPL for the first time in his career, became the youngest foreign player to score a century in IPL history when he completed his century in the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. In this matter, Connolly has broken the 10-year-old record of Quinton de Kock when he scored a century at the age of 23 years and 122 days in the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore while playing for Delhi Capitals in the 2016 IPL season. Whereas Cooper Connolly has played a century in this match against Sunrisers Hyderabad at the age of 22 years and 257 days.
Youngest player to score a century in IPL
- Cooper Connolly (Punjab Kings) – 22 years 257 days old vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (2026)
- Quinton de Kock (Delhi Capitals) – 23 years 122 days vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (2016)
- David Warner (Delhi Capitals) – 23 years 153 days old vs Kolkata Knight Riders (2010)
- David Miller (Punjab Kings) – 23 years 330 days vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (2013)
- Cameron Green (Mumbai Indians) – 23 years 352 days old vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (2023)
Chris Gayle’s record broken
Cooper Connolly has now become the player to score the most runs in a match for Punjab Kings in the IPL match played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Punjab Kings, in which he has broken the record of Chris Gayle. Gayle had played an unbeaten inning of 104 runs while playing for Punjab Kings in the year 2018, while Cooper Connolly has seen an unbeaten inning of 107 runs in this match.
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