IPL 2020: Devdutt Padikkal becomes second uncapped Indian to score 400 runs and more in debut season

Cricket | Friday | 30th October, 2020

The Indian Premier League 2020 is tied in with finding new gifts. Throughout the long term, a few players began as youths to turn into the following geniuses of Indian cricket, for example, Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah. This season, there have been a few breakout hotshots with any semblance of T Natarajan, Ravi Bishnoi, and Riyan Parag.

Notwithstanding, the one batsman that has stood head and shoulder over the rest has been Devdutt Padikkal of Royal Challengers Bangalore. Truth be told, with 417 runs in 12 matches, 20-year-old Padikkal is just the second uncapped part throughout the entire existence of IPL to accumulate in excess of 400 runs in his presentation season. Before him just Shreyas Iyer did as such, scoring 439 runs for Delhi Capitals (at that point Daredevils) in 2015. By and large, Padikkal is the eighth Indian player to score 400 sudden spikes in demand for additional in his introduction IPL season.

Padikkal has so far struck three half-hundreds of years in the IPL. He began with 50 years against in his first match of the period against Sunrisers Hyderabad, prior to stripping off successive fifties against Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals scoring 54 and 63 separately. He got begins a few different occasions opening the batting for RCB alongside Finch, as scores of 33, 32, 35 would reflect.

Subsequent to going a couple of matches without a decent score, Padikkal got back to his scoring ways, hitting 74 off 45 balls against Mumbai Indians. He struck 12 fours and a six to top score for his group prior to getting out to Bumrah. His thump, be that as it may, went futile as MI made sure about a five-wicket win on the rear of an unbeaten 79 from Suryakumar Yadav.