IMAGE: Lucknow Tremendous Giants’ Ayush Badoni top-scored with an excellent 59 not out in opposition to Chennai Tremendous Kings on Wednesday. {Photograph}: BCCI
Ayush Badoni sizzled on a wet day in Lucknow with a career-best 59 to steal the thunder within the deserted match in opposition to Chennai Tremendous Kings on Wednesday.
Badoni, who learnt his cricket underneath legendary Delhi cricket coach the late Tarak Sinha — the person chargeable for producing a dozen worldwide cricketers together with the likes of Rishabh Pant, Ashish Nehra, Manoj Prabhakar and Shikhar Dhawan amongst others — confirmed his class with an excellent innings on a tough pitch on the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow.
Badoni’s profession took a giant leap when Gautam Gambhir noticed him bat and the remainder is historical past. Gambhir ensured that Lucknow Tremendous Giants bagged him on the IPL public sale final 12 months for his base value of Rs 20 lakh and backed him to the hilt in his very first season.
Final season, he scored 161 runs in 13 video games and this 12 months he has already surpassed that tally with 191 runs from 10 matches at a strike fee of 143.
The 23-year-old produced a outstanding half-century in opposition to Chennai Tremendous Kings the place worldwide stars like Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis and Nicholas Pooran struggled in opposition to the CSK spin trio on a pitch providing appreciable help to the spinners.
Badoni, who has batted at numerous positions for LSG, got here out at No 7 in opposition to CSK together with his staff tottering on 44/5 within the tenth over.
He within the firm of Pooran batted cautiously because the duo set about rebuilding the LSG innings, counting on ones and twos, with out taking any possibilities in opposition to the spinners with the sphere properly unfold out.
LSG scored 31 in eight overs after the Powerplay earlier than Badoni broke the shackles as he slogged spinner Mahesh Theekshana for a six over midwicket — for the primary boundary after a protracted wait of fifty balls.
IMAGE: Ayush Badoni hits a six. {Photograph}: BCCI
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