Kolkata Knight Riders made a brilliant start to their campaign by defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad by 10 runs in the third match of IPL 2021. The Hyderabad team may have lost this match, but their 19-year-old young batting all-rounder Abdul Samad won everyone's heart.
In the match played against KKR, Samad played an unbeaten inning of 19 runs with the help of two sixes off 8 balls, but what's amazing is that this 19-year-old young batsman hit both the sixes of his innings on the balls of the world no. 1 test bowler Pat Cummins. Samad's short 8 ball inning was so exciting that cricket fans flooded Twitter against the decision of sending him late.
Actually, in this match, the Hyderabad team was chasing KKR's target of 188 runs. Fast bowler Pat Cummins was bowling the 19th over, on the second ball of this over, Abdul Samad hit a 93 meters long six, while, on the next ball, Samad again swung his bat and hit another long six. The Sheer class that the 19-year-old kid displayed in those two sixes against Pat Cummins has caught everyone's eye.
The 19-year-old all-rounder was born in J&K's Kala Kot, he had a historic run in the 2019-20 Ranji Trophy.
He hammered the highest number of 36 sixes in the tournament, he scored 592 runs in the 17 innings with a strike healthy strike rate of 113, considering that Ranji Trophy is not T20 cricket.
Soon, Sun Risers Hyderabad signed Abdul Samad up for INR 20 lakh in the 2019 auction. He became only the fourth player from J&K to play in Indian Premier league stripes after Parvez Rasool, Mansoor Dar and Rasikh Salam.