Hungergekar, who made his debut for Chennai Super Kings under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni in IPL 2023, bowled amazingly. He hunted two Pakistani batsmen in the fourth over. On the second ball of the over, opener Sam Ayub was caught out by wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel. Ayub could not open the account even after facing 11 balls. On the last ball of the same over, Omar Yusuf was first hit by a bouncer and then shown the way to the pavilion even before opening the account.
Bowling action like Jasprit Bumrah
Hungergekar, who has the ability to bowl at a speed of more than 145 kmph, is also known as Maharashtra Express. If you do not remember about this Osmanabad-born fast bowler all-rounder, then let us tell you that there was a lot of tug-of-war between Rohit Sharma’s captaincy Mumbai Indians and Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings during the IPL auction for this player. His bowling action is also similar to Jasprit Bumrah to a great extent.
Chennai beat Mumbai and bought it for 1.5 crores
Mumbai Indians took the lead from the beginning. First Lucknow Super Giants tried to topple Mumbai and then Chennai Super Kings. Dhoni’s team finally managed to buy this player with a base price of 30 lakhs for Rs 1.50 crore. In this season, Hungergekar took 3 wickets in 2 matches. Hopefully, if given the opportunity, he will do even more amazing things in the next season.
Pakistan: Sam Ayub, Hasibullah Khan, Mohammad Haris (c & wk), Kamran Ghulam, Sahibzada Farhan, Omair Yousuf, Qasim Akram, Mubasir Khan, Mehran Mumtaz, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Shahnawaz Dahani
India: Sai Sudarshan, Abhishek Sharma, Nikin Jose, Yash Dhull (c), Riyan Parag, Nishant Sindhu, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Manav Suthar, Harshit Rana, Nitish Reddy, Rajyavardhan Hungergekar