Actor Amitabh Bachchan took to X (formerly Twitter) to praise RR's 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi for his performance in IPL 2026. He called Sooryavanshi 'remarkable', adding, "At that age, I couldn't even play marbles or gulli danda properly." Sooryavanshi scored 776 runs with a strike rate of 237.30 in IPL 2026.