The Royal Challengers Bangalore team, hoping to make a comeback in the 13th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), made a strong start against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the first match. The young cricketer, who was responsible for this, was making his debut with this match on the world’s most glamorous cricket platform. This cricketer is Devdutt Padikkal, who not only gave a strong start to RCB by putting a strong fifty in his first match but also took many records.
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1 First Indian to debut in IPL after 10 years2 19 batsmen have made their debut in IPL3 Devdutt is unique, made his debut count in every level of cricket4 Ranked second in IPL Debut Fifty5 Dominated domestic cricketFirst Indian to debut in IPL after 10 years
Devdutt Paddikal batted strongly and played a vigorous innings of 56 runs in 42 balls. In this, he hit 8 fours and shared a 90-run partnership in 11 overs for the first wicket with Aaron Finch. With this, Devdutt became the first Indian batsman in 10 years to debut in the IPL with Fifty. Before him, the last Indian batsman to do this feat in IPL was Kedar Jadhav, who did such a thing in IPL-2010. Not only this, Devdutt is just another batsman of RCB who has done this feat in IPL. Before him, in Srivatsa Goswami, this record was made for RCB in IPL-2008.
19 batsmen have made their debut in IPL
In the IPL, Devdutt has become the 19th batsman and 8th Indian batsman to make a fifty in a total debut match. So far in the IPL in 2008, Gautam Gambhir, Brandon McCullum, Mike Hussey, Hopes, Kumar Sangakkara, Shikhar Dhawan, Graeme Smith, Asnodkar, Shaun Marsh, Vidyut, Srivats Goswami made their debut with Fifty. After this record was made by David Warner in IPL-2009. Apart from Kedar Jadhav, Owais Shah, Ambati Rayudu and Paul Collingwood debuted in FIFTY in IPL 2010. Levi made this record in IPL-2012, the last time in IPL-2016, this record was done by Sam Billings.
Devdutt is unique, made his debut count in every level of cricket
Devdutt not only made his debut in the IPL with Fifty, but he has set a unique record of similar performance in his debut match in every level of cricket. Devdutt made his first-class cricket debut in 2018, scoring 7 and 77 in a Ranji Trophy match against Maharashtra. In 2019, while scoring List-A career, he scored 58 against Jharkhand. Notting a 53-run knock against Uttarakhand’s team, he made his T20 career debut in 2019.
Ranked second in IPL Debut Fifty
Devdutt made his debut in the IPL by applying Fifty at the age of 20 years and 76 days. He has become the second youngest batsman to do this feat in terms of age. At a young age, Srivats Goswami made his IPL-2008 debut by putting a fifty. The age of Shreevats was then 19 years and 1 day. Shikhar Dhawan made his IPL debut at 22 years 136 days and David Warner at the age of 22 years 187 days.
Dominated domestic cricket
Born in Kerala but playing in domestic cricket for Karnataka, Devdutt showed his mettle in limited overs matches of domestic cricket last year. In the 50-over matches Vijay Hazare Trophy, Devdutt was number one with 609 runs in 11 innings at an average of 67.66. In this, he had scored 2 centuries and 5 fifty. Now let’s talk about Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy. In this too, Devdutt had scored the most runs. In his name, 580 runs were recorded in 12 innings with an average of 64.44 and a tremendous strike rate of 175.75. In this, he had recorded 1 century and 5 fifty in his account. Due to his tremendous performance, Karnataka’s team was dominated everywhere.
