Arshin Kulkarni Century: After the IPL 2025 mega auction, the squad of Lucknow Super Giants is looking absolutely tremendous. In batting, this team has good players like Rishabh Pant, Nicholas Pooran, David Miller and Aiden Markram. Whereas in bowling, famous and talented players like Avesh Khan, Akashdeep, Shamar Joseph and Mayank Yadav will be seen wreaking havoc. But meanwhile, one player of LSG has shone in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. The name of this player is Arshin Kulkarni, who has done wonders for Maharashtra by scoring a century.
This was his debut match for Maharashtra and his century in the very first match shows that he can prove to be an excellent opening batsman for Lucknow in IPL 2025. In the quarterfinal match of Vijay Hazare Trophy played on Saturday, Kulkarni played an innings of 104 runs in 137 balls against Punjab. In this innings he hit a total of 14 fours. He along with Ankit Bawane made a partnership of 145 runs and contributed in Maharashtra reaching 275 runs.
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Arshin Kulkarni may have batted with a slow strike rate of 78 in this innings, but he has definitely shown new dreams to LSG for IPL 2025. Before this century, he had also scored runs in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. In that T20 tournament, he scored 194 runs at an average of 32 while playing 6 matches. Apart from this, his strike rate of 137 is also proving him to be an ideal batsman for T20 format.
On the basis of these excellent statistics, he can get the opening role in IPL along with Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran or even Rishabh Pant. Kulkarni also bowls medium pace with his right arm and he also took 6 wickets in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
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