NEW DELHI: Delhi Capitals‘ new recruit Sameer Rizvi pulled off a mad present on Saturday, smashing a jaw-dropping 97-ball 201 not out in an Below-23 State A Trophy match.
The UP captain was at his unbelievable greatest, smoking the Tripura bowlers to all corners of the park.
With the assistance of 13 fours and 20 sixes, Rizvi lit up the Vadodara stadium as his facet piled up a large 405.
With the sensational effort, Rizvi recorded the quickest double ton within the historical past of males’s U23 State A Trophy nevertheless it will not qualify as a Listing A report.
In Listing A cricket, New Zealand’s Chad Bowes holds the report for quickest double ton which got here off 103 balls in opposition to Otago in the course of the Ford Trophy.
After Rizvi got here in to bat within the 23rd over, he took the Tripura bowlers to the cleaners in a sheer show of power-hitting.
The 21-year-old represented Chennai Tremendous Kings within the 2024 season however managed solely 51 runs in Eight outings.
After a flop present final season, he was not picked up by the franchise on the mega public sale.
Nonetheless, Delhi Capitals did pay money for him for Rs 95 lakh — a big lower from his earlier IPL price ticket of Rs 8.four crore.
The teenager has been in dazzling type just lately.
Within the final two clashes, Rizvi has scored 153 off 114 balls in opposition to Himachal Pradesh and an unbeaten 137 off 69 balls in opposition to Pondicherry.
