KKR: Before the start of IPL 2026, Kolkata Knight Riders’ star batsman Angkrish Raghuvanshi has created a stir by scoring a century in 55 balls.
KKR: The countdown for IPL 2026 has started, before this tournament starting from March 28, Kolkata Knight Riders’ young batsman Angkrish Raghuvanshi has created chaos on the field with his powerful batting. Recently, during the practice match played at Eden Garden, he made his intentions clear by scoring a tremendous century in just 55 balls.
Actually, on Friday, Kolkata Knight Riders played their first practice match at Eden Gardens. During this time the team was divided into two parts. In this match played on March 20, 21 year old Angkrish Raghuvanshi presented an example of explosive bowling. In this match, he batted brilliantly at a strike rate of 187.27 and completed his century in just 55 balls. During this period, 9 fours and 5 sixes were seen from his bat. In this match he played a stormy inning of 103 runs. On the basis of this stormy innings of Raghuvanshi, his team won by 6 wickets.
In this practice match played at Eden Gardens, the entire KKR team was divided into two, Gold Knights and Purple Knights. In this match, Gold Knights batted first and scored 199 runs in 20 overs. Rinku Singh scored the highest score of 40 runs for them, while star opener Tim Seifert played a stormy inning of 30 runs in 13 balls. Karthik Tyagi made a splash with the ball and took 3 wickets.
While chasing the target in the second innings, Ajinkya Rahane returned cheaply after scoring 2 runs for Purple Knights. Apart from him, Finn Allen also departed after scoring 23 runs. Manish Pandey and Ramandeep Singh also remained cheap. After this, Angkrish Raghuvanshi took the lead and played a stormy inning of 103 runs and led his team to victory.
Talking about the performance of 21-year-old Angkrish Raghuvanshi in IPL 2025, he strengthened KKR’s middle order by batting aggressively last season. Last season he scored 241 runs in 8 innings. Now before IPL 2026, he has made his intentions clear by scoring a brilliant century that he is going to create a stir with his bat in the upcoming season also.
