Who is Prabhsimran Singh: Punjab Kings IPL 2023 By defeating Delhi Capitals by 31 runs in the 59th match, they have kept their hopes of going to the playoffs alive. Playing first, Punjab had given Delhi a target of 168 runs to win. In response, the Delhi team could score only 136 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. Opener in this victory of Punjab Prabhsimran Singh played an important role. This 22-year-old young batsman scored his first IPL century against Delhi. After this innings, Prabhsimran Singh started being discussed everywhere and today everyone wants to know about him. So let us tell you who is Prabhsimran Singh?
Prabhsimran Singh scored his first century in IPL
Prabhsimran Singh scored an inning of 103 runs in 65 balls in the match played against Delhi Capitals. By the end of the first 10 overs of Punjab’s innings, Prabhasimran had played 31 balls and only 27 runs had come off his bat. But after that he changed the gear and completed the half century by adding 23 more runs in the next 11 balls. He played 42 balls to reach Fifty. After that it was difficult to stop them. Prabhsimran scored 50 runs in the next 19 balls and completed his first century of IPL in 61 balls. During this, he hit 10 fours and 6 sixes.
Punjab Kings expressed confidence in Prabhsimran Singh
Let us tell you that Prabhsimran Singh is a part of the Punjab team in IPL since 2019. He got to play only six matches in the first four seasons. In 2019, the Punjab team had joined him at a huge price of 4.8 crores. Prabhsimran got a chance to play only one match in 2019 and he could score 16 runs. In such a situation, there was a lot of criticism regarding the huge amount given to him. However, now Prabhsimran has given a befitting reply to all the critics by scoring a century. After the match, Prabhsimran Singh was also selected as the player of the match.
This special record was registered in the name of Prabhsimran Singh
As soon as Prabhsimran Singh scored his first century in IPL, a special record was registered in his name. Prabhasimran has become the sixth youngest batsman to score a century in IPL. Prabhsimran Singh scored a century at the age of 22 years 276 days. Manish Pandey holds the record of being the youngest to score a century in IPL. Manish did this feat while playing for RCB in the year 2009 at the age of 19 years 253 days. Rishabh Pant is second in this list. Pant played a century against Hyderabad in the year 2018 at the age of 20 years 218 days. Devdutt Padikkal (20 years, 289 days), Yashasvi Jaiswal (21 years, 123 days), Sanju Samson (22 years, 151 days) are also included in this list.
Prabhsimran Singh’s cricket career
Significantly, Prabhsimran Singh has played 18 matches so far in his IPL career. In which he has scored 398 runs batting at a strike rate of 140.64. He also has a century and a half-century in the IPL. Before IPL, Prabhsimran was also discussed in domestic cricket. In 2022, played the first Ranji Trophy match for Punjab against Himachal and scored a century. He has played 11 first-class matches so far and has scored three centuries. At the same time, in 53 T20 matches, two centuries and 10 half-centuries have come out of his bat. Prabhsimran Singh also does wicketkeeping. Before the IPL, he scored an inning of 65 runs in 37 balls against Sri Lanka in the final of the Under-19 Asia Cup.
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