Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is drawing 11x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

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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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 4 edits to this article on 2026-05-29, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Age dispute

What changed that day

The article grew by 124 characters that day. The largest single addition was 838 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-05-29 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.