India’s most searched person of 2025 is a 14-year-old boy called Vaibhav Suryavanshi. The young gun pricked everyone’s eyes with his sensational performances in IPL, India A games and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. Not only have his achievements shattered some of cricket’s longstanding records but they have also made him the poster boy for India’s next batch of batsmen.
According to Google’s Year in Search 2025, cricketers drove more internet searches in India this year than any other category. However, the young Vaibhav Suryavanshi was the most Googled personality. The cricketer created waves when he debuted in the Ranji Trophy at the age of 12. Suryavanshi then achieved one milestone after another, including his IPL heroics in India and his domestic prowess. Other names on the Google list were Priyansh Arya, Abhishek Sharma, Shaik Rasheed, Ayush Mhatre, and Jemimah Rodrigues.
Suryavanshi’s fame skyrockets during IPL 2025
Suryavanshi’s star was born during the IPL, where he became the youngest male cricketer to make a T20 century. He smashed a 101 off 38 balls against the Gujarat Titans while playing for the Rajasthan Royals, which came peppered with seven fours and 11 sixes. He reached 100 off just 35 balls, the secondfastest hundred in IPL and first fastest by an Indian. And the newly-minted household name is created in an inning.
While in Qatar representing his country again at the Rising Stars Asia Cup, he faced up to UAE and blasted 26 sixes as part of a savage century from 32 balls. The 42-ball innings of unmatched power dominance was studded with a whopping 11 boundaries and as many as 15 sixes, putting it among the most boundary-laden ones in T20 history.
A month later, the left-arm pacer continued to impress in the SMAT. He scored 108 not out off 58 balls for Bihar versus Maharashtra in the competition to be the youngest centurion of the tournament. This was his third T20 century which made him the first teenager to achieve three T20 tons and he went past Gustav Mackeon and Tilak Varma (2) for the most centuries by a teenager in this format.
