Punjab Kings bought Ashutosh Sharma for 20 lakhs and he played a brilliant innings against Mumbai Indians in IPL 2024.

IPL 2024 PBKS vs MI: Ashutosh Sharma almost won the match for Punjab Kings by playing a brilliant innings against Mumbai Indians. In the 33rd match of IPL 2024 played in Mullanpur, Mumbai defeated Punjab by 9 runs. Mumbai may have won this match, but Ashutosh Sharma of Punjab won the hearts of the fans. Ashutosh had left Mumbai breathless by playing explosive innings.

Ashutosh played an inning of 61 runs in 28 balls with the help of 2 fours and 7 sixes. During this period his strike rate was 217.86. He came out to bat at number eight. Ashutosh kept fighting till the last moment to give victory to Punjab, but his wicket fell on the first ball of the 18th over, from where Punjab's hopes of victory were almost ended.

The bid was placed for Rs 20 lakh

Let us tell you that Punjab Kings had bought Ashutosh in the mini auction for IPL 2024 by paying a price of Rs 20 lakh. Ashutosh, famous for his explosive batting, has played brilliant innings for Punjab even before this season. Earlier, in the match against Rajasthan Royals, Ashutosh played a brilliant inning and scored 31 runs in 16 balls with the help of 1 four and 3 sixes and before that, Ashutosh had scored 33* runs against Hyderabad. Similarly, he has proved to be quite successful for Punjab so far.

Yuvraj Singh's record of half century in 11 balls has been broken.

Let us tell you that Ashutosh has also achieved the feat of breaking the record of former Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh by scoring a half-century in 11 balls. In the 2023 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, Ashutosh had set a record of scoring fifty in 11 balls, after which he became the fastest Indian to complete fifty. Earlier this record was recorded in the name of Yuvraj Singh, who scored a half-century in 12 balls.

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