At the 2024 IPL auction, Chennai Super Kings spent INR 8.4 crore on Sameer Rizvi, the 20-year-old hard hitter from Uttar Pradesh.
Sameer Rizvi, a 20-year-old from Uttar Pradesh, had registered for the 2024 IPL auction for Rs 2 million. Chennai Super Kings took the lead and Gujarat Titans fought back. When Gujarat withdrew, both the teams bid up to Rs 76 crore.
Delhi Capitals also joined in at this point, but they too settled for Rs 8.4 crore, a whopping 42 times Rizvi’s base price.
Rizvi stepped up from the cricket age groups and progressed through the regular U14, U16 and U19 player groups at state level. He made his debut for India’s U19 team at the age of 15 and then for the state’s senior national team soon after.
He came into the limelight with Kanpur Superstars in the UP T20 League. He hit 455 runs at a strike rate of 189 and in the tournament he was the highest among players to score 100 runs. His 35 sixes were the most, with a four or six hit every 3.3 balls.
The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy was then played and he scored 277 runs, the highest for Uttar Pradesh, with a strike rate of 140, the second highest in the state after Rinku Singh’s 171. became. No one could hit his 18 sixes.
Rizvi played against eventual champions Punjab in the quarter-finals and along with Rinku scored an unbeaten score of 116 off 53 balls.
His current Twenty20 record (295 runs at a strike rate of 135) may not be that impressive, but he played a key role in Uttar Pradesh’s U-23 inter-state tournament victory. Ta. He also throws some off-spin.
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