New Delhi. Be it sports or life, sometimes even a mistake turns into an advantage. Same thing happened with Punjab Kings in the last IPL auction. He mistakenly bet on a cricketer who was not in his priority list. When this player made Punjab Kings win the almost lost match on Thursday night, the team management must have remembered that ‘mistake’. We are talking about Shashank Singh, who played a match-winning innings against Gujarat Titans.
Shashank Singh is one of those cricketers who got recognition late in his career. To establish his identity he drank water from ghats. First played for Mumbai in domestic cricket. Then he changed the team and reached Puducherry and now plays for Chhattisgarh. Similarly, he first played for Delhi Daredevils (Capitals) in IPL. Then he stayed with Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad and now he is playing for Punjab Kings.
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Shashank Singh is the only player from India and only the third player in the world to have an innings of more than 150 runs and 5 wickets in a single List A match. Shashank Singh played an innings of 152 runs against Manipur on 29 November and took 5 wickets. Talking about world cricket, only Alvin Kallicharan and Mike Procter have been able to perform like this in List A matches.
Now let us also talk about the match which brought Shashank Singh into limelight. In this match, Punjab Kings defeated Gujarat Titans by 3 wickets with one ball remaining. While chasing the target of 200 runs, Punjab Kings at one time lost 5 wickets for 111 runs. After this, Shashank Singh took charge and won the match by scoring 61 runs on 29 balls. He hit 6 fours and 4 sixes in this innings. In this way, Shashank Singh reminded of his early days when he was known for hitting long sixes in Mumbai’s Kanga League.
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Tags: IPL 2024, Punjab Kings
FIRST PUBLISHED: April 5, 2024, 12:53 IST