IPL Rising Star: The Royal Challengers Bangalore team had to wait a month to get their second win in the 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). RCB won the match played against Sunrisers Hyderabad on 25 April by 35 runs. Earlier, he got his first win this season on March 25 in the match against Punjab Kings. In this match for RCB, all-rounder player Swapnil Singh played an important role in the victory by making important contributions both with the bat and with the bat. While bowling during the powerplay, Swapnil strengthened RCB’s hold in the match by taking the wickets of 2 important players of Sunrisers Hyderabad, Aiden Markram and Heinrich Klaasen, in a single over. Swapnil bowled 3 overs in this match in which he gave 40 runs but also managed to take 2 wickets.
Made debut with Baroda team at the age of 14
Talking about Swapnil Singh, this 33-year-old player was made a part of the Royal Challengers Bangalore team at a base price of Rs 20 lakh during the IPL 2024 player auction. If we talk about Swapnil Singh, he was born in Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh. Swapnil Singh’s career so far has been full of ups and downs, in which he was a part of the possible team of 25 players in the ICC-19 World Cup played in 2008 but he did not get a place in the main team. After this, at the age of just 14 years and 355 days, Swapnil made his debut in first-class cricket, in which he got a chance to play for the Baroda team. After this, Swapnil played 56 first class matches for Baroda and then decided to play for Uttarakhand team.
In the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy played in the year 2014-15, Swapnil Singh took 6 wickets for just 19 runs in a match against Saurashtra, after which everyone’s attention was drawn to him. Earlier, Swapnil Singh was also a part of Mumbai Indians team in IPL, but he did not get a chance to play in a single match. After this performance, he was included in the Punjab Kings team at the base price of Rs 10 lakh. Swapnil Singh had to wait for 8 matches for RCB in the 17th season of IPL but he definitely won everyone’s hearts with his experience as soon as he came on the field. Swapnil not only took 2 wickets in this match, apart from this he also played an innings of 12 runs in 6 balls with the bat.
Swapnil Singh’s performance so far has been like this
If we talk about the performance of 33 year old Swapnil Singh in IPL so far, he has taken 3 wickets in 8 matches and has also scored 26 runs. Apart from this, Swapnil Singh has played 76 matches in first-class cricket and has taken 181 wickets at an average of 30.40 while also scoring 2727 runs with the bat at an average of 26.22. Swapnil has taken 67 wickets in List-A cricket and 65 wickets in T20 so far.
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