Who is Suyash Prabhudessai?
- Suyash Prabhudessai made his debut for RCB
- Brilliant fielding to run Moeen Ali out
- Right-handed batting all-rounder plays for Goa
Suyash
Prabhudessai got off to a quick start in his Royal Challengers Bangalore debut
against Chennai Super Kings on Tuesday at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. RCB
were reeling at 50 for four, needing 217 to win, when Prabhudessai joined
Shahbaz Ahmed at the crease. The two put on a fifty-fifty stand to keep RCB at
bay.
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Prabhudessai
was especially harsh on CSK captain Ravindra Jadeja, taking four and six runs
off his bowling in the 11th over. A reverse sweep over the short third was eye-catching.
He was dropped on 32 by Dwayne Bravo. Maheesh Theekshana eventually bowled him
for 34 off 18 balls. Earlier in the match, Prabhudessai pulled off a brilliant
bit of fielding at backward point to run Moeen Ali out.
After
Moeen Ali was dismissed, Robin Uthappa and Shivam Dube accelerated to push CSK to
133/2 after 15 overs. The former took 33 balls to reach fifty, while the latter
took 30. Following a slow powerplay, Uthappa and the Chennai Super Kings
rebounded fast. By the end of six overs, the four-time champions were 35/1.
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Prabhudessai,
who was born on December 6, 1997, has played all of his domestic cricket for
the Goa state cricket team. On 22 February 2019, the right-handed batting
all-rounder made his T20 debut against Sikkim. In a total of 22 T20 matches, he
has scored 443 runs at a strike rate of close to 150.
In the
shorter format of the game, he has a career-high score of 60 not out. Suyash
Prabhudessai also bowls right-arm medium pace for the Royal Challengers Bangalore
and can help with the ball. Prabhudessai has played a lot of first-class cricket for Goa, scoring over 900 runs,
including six fifties and one hundred.
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It is a huge opportunity for the
24-year-old teenager to participate in the IPL 2022 season among great RCB
players such as skipper Faf du Plessis, Virat Kohli, and Glenn Maxwell.
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