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Rinku Singh’s bat has been silent in IPL 2024
Ashutosh Sharma is scoring runs at a strike rate of more than 200.
New Delhi. Punjab Kings batsman Ashutosh Sharma has made everyone his fan with his explosive batting. Ashutosh is playing in IPL for the first time. Seeing his batting, everyone is helpless. Seeing the way this batsman has batted till now at number 8, he is being described as a future super star. The work that Rinku Singh was doing for his team KKR in the last year’s IPL, Ashutosh Sharma is doing the same work for Punjab in this IPL. Ashutosh Sharma is dominating the IPL this year. This season of IPL, Ashutosh has gone far ahead of KKR’s Rinku Singh.
Ashutosh Sharma has played 4 matches in the 17th season of IPL and during this he has scored runs at a strike rate of 205.26. During this period, he has faced 61 balls and scored 156 runs which includes a half-century. His average has been 52. The best score of this right-handed batsman has been 61 runs. By coming in at number 8, he has become the first batsman to score more than 150 runs. During this period, Ashutosh has broken the record of Rashid Khan, who had scored 115 runs by landing at this number or lower order.
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Rinku Singh could not rock this season yet
One similarity between 25-year-old Ashutosh Sharma and Rinku Singh is that both come out to bat at number seven or eight. Left-handed batsman Rinku Singh has played 6 matches for Kolkata Knight Riders in this year’s Indian Premier League, out of which he has come out to bat 5 times. He has 83 runs in his name in 5 innings. Rinku’s strike rate during this period is 162.74 while the average is 27.67. This makes it clear that Ashutosh Sharma, who bats at number eight, is far ahead of Rinku at this time.
Punjab Kings bought Ashutosh for 20 lakhs
Ashutosh Sharma has been bought by Punjab Kings for his base price of Rs 20 lakh. Born in Ratlan, Madhya Pradesh, Ashutosh Sharma has the ability to play big shots. Against Mumbai Indians, he hit a powerful six on a bowler like Jasprit Bumrah, which was clearly visible. He hit many shots like Suryakumar Yadav. People have started calling him Mini Surya.
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Tags: IPL 2024, kkr, Punjab Kings, Rinku Singh
FIRST PUBLISHED: April 19, 2024, 20:56 IST