Indian Premier League 2020: Sourav Ganguly showers praise on Royal Challengers Bangalore opener Devdutt Padikkal
BCCI president and former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly heaped reward on Royal Challengers Bangalore opening batsman Devdutt Padikkal after the latter’s spectacular debut innings of 56 (off 42 balls; 4×8) towards SunRisers Hyderabad on Monday (September 21).
Ganguly, himself a left-hand opening batsman in his enjoying days, took to Twitter to laud the man southpaw opener. He wrote: “Enjoyed watching Devdutt Padikkal @RCBTweets..left handers grace so delightful.”
Enjoyed watching devdutt padikal @RCBTweets ..left handers grace so pleasant
— Sourav Ganguly (@SGanguly99) September 21, 2020
Being put in to bat first, Padikkal opened the innings with Australian restricted overs’ skipper Aaron Finch and appeared in nice contact enjoying some pleasant strokes all throughout the bottom. The duo engaged in a 90-run stand which set the tone for the Royal Challengers as they completed at a aggressive whole of 163, on a tough batting observe.
SRH in reply fell wanting the entire by 10-runs after some magnificent bowling from Yuzvendra Chahal and Navdeep Saini.
The 20-year-old Padikkal was in scintillating kind within the home restricted overs format final season- scoring essentially the most runs in each Vijay Hazare Trophy and the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy for Karnataka.
Padikkal was purchased by RCB for his base worth of Rs 20 Lakhs within the 2019 IPL auctions. The followers of the franchise have been over the moon with the acquisition because the younger batsman can absolutely develop into a significant cog in RCB’s lineup on this season in addition to sooner or later. A glimpse of that potential was evident yesterday.
RCB will tackle Kings XI Punjab of their subsequent match on September 24.
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