A Child Just Exposed Cricket's Rigged System

776 runs in 16 innings. 64 fours. 72 sixes. A strike rate of 237.31. IPL 2026 Orange Cap winner. Those numbers would be absurd for any batter on the planet. But when they belong to a 15-year-old playing his first full IPL season, they tell you something is deeply wrong with the sport.

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, the Indian teenager who owns these numbers, didn't just break records this IPL season. He shattered the illusion that elite international bowlers are untouchable. He took on Jasprit Bumrah, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood like they were club cricketers. No fear. No hesitation. Just pure, ruthless hitting.

And that, according to Australian cricket legend Greg Chappell, is exactly the problem.

The System Is Broken And The Elites Built It That Way

Chappell didn't mince his words. Writing for ESPNcricinfo, he laid bare what many cricket fans across Africa and the developing world have suspected for years: the game has been deliberately engineered to favour batters and kill the bowler.