New Delhi. Shashank Singh played a brilliant inning of 61 runs against Gujarat Titans and almost won the lost match for Punjab Kings. This is not the first time in IPL that Shashank Singh has played a stormy innings. Especially against Gujarat Titans, this batsman’s bat starts spitting fire. Even in IPL 2023, Shashank Singh scored runs against Gujarat at a strike rate of 416.66. Shashank then hit three sixes in a row.
A year old video of Shashank Singh is going viral after leading Punjab Kings to victory in IPL 2024. This video is of the match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Gujarat Titans in IPL 2023. Shashank was then a member of Sunrisers Hyderabad. On April 27 last year, he played an innings of 25 runs in 6 balls against Gujarat Titans. In this match, Shashank had hit 3 consecutive sixes in the over of Lockie Ferguson, one of the stormy bowlers.
When Shashank Singh used to play for SRH, he smashed Lockie Ferguson like a club bowler #GTvPBKS #ShashankSingh #GTvPBKS #PBKSvsGT pic.twitter.com/MxN4jH5k9f
— Richard Kettleborough (@RichKettle07) April 5, 2024
When Shashank Singh played the match-winning innings for Punjab against Gujarat Titans, Sunrisers Hyderabad must have also remembered him. Sunrisers must have realized that they had released a match-winner. Let us tell you that Sunrisers had released Shashank Singh in 2023. Only after this Punjab Kings bid on him.
Let us tell you that Shashank Singh had played an inning of 61 runs on 29 balls against Gujarat Titans in the match played on Thursday. He played this innings when Punjab Kings were under pressure after losing 5 wickets for 111 runs. Shashank took charge from here and came out of the field only after giving victory to Punjab.
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Tags: Gujarat Titans, IPL 2024, Punjab Kings
FIRST PUBLISHED: April 5, 2024, 15:01 IST