“KKR Brings Neeraj Chopra As Affect Participant”: Web Finds Olympic Gold Medallist’s Dopple-ganger In Suyash Sharma | Cricket Information

Suyash Sharma solely performed white ball cricket at age grop stage, earlier than being snapped by KKR.© Twitter

Debutant spinner Suyash Sharma hogged all of the limelight after Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) within the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Thursday. The 19-year-old solely performed white ball cricket at age grop stage, earlier than being snapped on the public sale this 12 months. He shaped a lethal mixture with Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy in KKR’s complete win. Suyash returned figures of three/30 as RCB had been blow away by KKR’s spin trio.

Sporting a head band to maintain his flowing mane in verify, Suyash has some uncanny resemblance with Indian Olympic gold medal profitable javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, which did not go unnoticed by followers.

This is how Twitter reacted:

Taking part in in entrance of a capability crowd of about 67,000 on the Eden Gardens, Suyash regarded assured.

KKR skipper Nitish Rana performed down talks of the teenager being a “thriller spinner” as he termed him as a standard leg-break bowler however with ‘x-factor’.

“Suyash is not any thriller spinner,” the KKR skipper clarified on the post-match media interplay. “He’s a standard leg-spinner. However he has an x-factor due to his very excessive arm velocity with an orthodox motion, so it’s totally tough choose him.” Included as ‘Affect Participant’ instead of Venkatesh Iyer, Suyash grabbed 3/30 as KKR spin trio grabbed 9 wickets amongst them to shoot out RCB for 123 in 17.4 overs of their massive chase of 205.

(With PTI Inputs)

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