Suryansh Shedge and Suryakumar Yadav
Many players were bought in the mega auction of IPL 2025. During this period, bidding was also held on some unknown players whose names are not very familiar to the cricket fans. Now it will be interesting to see how many of these unknown players succeed in making a splash in IPL 2025. Although there is still time for IPL 2025, but there is one player who has achieved a big feat in T20 cricket even before waiting for the next season. Actually, T20 cricket is all the rage in India at present. Many big stars of Indian cricket are currently making their mark in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024-25. The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy started on 23 November and now the tournament has reached its final stage. 3 out of 4 teams have been decided for the semi-finals of this tournament. Apart from Baroda and Madhya Pradesh, Mumbai team has also confirmed its place in the last-4.
Mumbai made it to the semi-finals
Mumbai entered the semi-finals in thrilling fashion. Mumbai won the semi-final ticket by defeating Vidarbha by 6 wickets in the fourth quarter-final match. Ajinkya Rahane had the biggest contribution in this victory of Mumbai, who played an inning of 84 runs in 45 balls with the help of 10 fours and 3 sixes. However, this innings of Rahane would have gone in vain if Shivam Dubey in the middle order and Punjab Kings batsman had not played brilliant innings in the death overs.
Stormy batting in the last 4 overs
Batting first, Vidarbha scored a huge score of 221 runs losing 6 wickets in 20 overs. In response, Mumbai team had put 157 runs for 4 wickets on the scoreboard after the dismissal of Ajinkya Rahane in 15.1 overs and now the team needed 65 runs on 29 balls to win. In such a situation, Shivam Dubey and Suryansh Shedge, who joined Punjab Kings, took the responsibility of making the team win.
21 year old Suryansh created havoc
Mumbai needed 60 runs in the last 4 overs to win. In these 4 overs, Suryansh Shedge scored 36 runs in just 12 balls at a strike rate of 300. During this, 1 four and 4 skyscraper sixes came from Suryansh’s bat. In this way, Mumbai achieved the mountain-like score of 222 runs with 5 balls remaining. One six of Suryansh was so high that it fell outside the stadium. In this way, this 21 year old batsman, who joined Punjab Kings for Rs 30 lakh, won the hearts of the fans with his explosive innings even before the IPL.
