Who is Aniket Verma, the Uncapped SRH Explosive Batter?
Sunrisers Hyderabad’s explosive batter Aniket Verma played an outstanding inning against Delhi Capitals on Sunday. Excellent new players are emerging in the IPL 2025, and Aniket Verma is also one of them. After the failure of the top order of Sunrisers Hyderabad, Aniket Verma came and took charge of the innings and played a brilliant innings of 74 runs in 41 balls. He showed brilliant power hitting, scoring 6 sixes and 5 fours. At one point, Sunrisers Hyderabad had lost four wickets for 37 runs in 4.1 overs. At such a time, Aniket played a brilliant innings and took the team’s score to 163 runs.
Now, Delhi Capitals need 164 runs to win. Mitchell Starc’s excellent bowling proved Sunrisers Hyderabad’s strong batting order to be small by taking five wickets. However, against Lucknow Super Giants, Aniket impressed cricket fans by scoring 36 runs in just 13 balls, where he also hit 5 sixes. That’s why cricket fans want to know about this great player of the Sunrisers, who is Aniket Verma.
Who is Aniket Verma?
Aniket Verma was born in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh. He played most of the competitive cricket for Madhya Pradesh. He impressed everyone in the Madhya Pradesh Premier League, where he became the top scorer with 273 runs in just 6 matches for the Bhopal Leopards. His tremendous performance attracted the attention of the IPL franchise, and Sunrisers Hyderabad bought him for 30 lakhs in the IPL 2025 auction. In an interview with Dainik Bhaskar, Aniket said he would like to meet Hardik Pandya and wants to know about fitness, bat flow, and his hitting ability.
Apart from this, he also took the names of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, MS Dhoni, and Jasprit Bumrah and mentioned learning some good things from them. The kind of batting Aniket has shown in some matches of IPL 2025 proves that he is a very talented player. And he will be capable of playing the role of a finisher for Team India in the future.
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