The sixteenth match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 season witnessed the emergence of a teen who mesmerised the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) followers and cricket followers basically with attacking strokeplay and have become the youngest participant to register a fifty-plus rating of their maiden IPL innings.
Angkrish is without doubt one of the 23 gamers within the historical past of the match who’ve registered a fifty-plus rating of their maiden IPL innings. The 18-year and 304-day-old participant is the seventh youngest total to register a fifty within the match.
The precise-handed batter seemed in elegant contact through the course of his 54-run knock. He annihilated Delhi Capitals’ bowling assault alongside Sunil Narine and aggregated his runs at a lightning strike fee of 200.
He exhibited his boundary-hitting prowess to the fullest and struck 5 fours and three maximums. His knock helped Sunil Narine (85 off 39 balls) to hold on at his tempo with out worrying an excessive amount of concerning the run fee.
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Angkrish was part of India’s World Cup-winning U19 Males’s 2022 squad. Taking part in beneath the management of Yash Dhull, Angkrish completed the match because the main run-getter for India with 278 runs at a mean of 46.33. Kolkata Knight Riders picked him up on the IPL 2024 public sale in Dubai for Rs 20 lakhs.
Captain lauds rising star
The captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders, Shreyas Iyer, lauded Angkrish for taking part in a “fearless” model of cricket. Iyer additionally lavished reward on Angkrish for his “phenomenal work ethic”.
“He was fearless from ball one, his work ethic is phenomenal, the way in which he performed his photographs have been pleasing to the attention,” Iyer informed through the post-match presentation.
KKR IPL 2024 squad:
Philip Salt (wk), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy, Anukul Roy, Suyash Sharma, Vaibhav Arora, Manish Pandey, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Chetan Sakariya, Sherfane Rutherford, Sakib Hussain, Srikar Bharat, Dushmantha Chameera, Allah Ghazanfar, Nitish Rana
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