While pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc grabbed the highest bids in the IPL auction 2024, Shubham Dubey, the middle order batter from the team Vidarbha secured a surprising a bid of 5 crores and 80 lakhs from the un capped player slot. He went to Rajasthan Royals for IPL 2024 and this certainly comes a huge boost for all the young players like him.
Yet, not many of us know about Shubham Dubey who has had a perfect season with team Vidarbha recently. He is known to be a good finisher. In the following parts of this article, we will talk more regarding this amazing player.
Who is Shubham Dubey?
He is a prolific cricketer from team Vidarbha that scored some good runs in the recent concluded Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. While being a middle order player , Dubey, a left-hand batter, scored 221 runs in seven innings at a strike rate of 187.28 for his team. While this may come as average score for a good batter, his role in dominating a chase of 213 against Bengal came phenomenal. This also comes as the highest-ever successful chase in the history of the SMAT, with 13 balls to spare.
What was more amazing about his innings was that he came as an Impact Player at No. 5 and went on to score an unbeaten 58 from just 20 balls. Moreover, heslammed three fours and six sixes in that prolific innings.
Cricket Career
Shubham Dubey has so far played 20 matches and scored 485 runs with an impressive average of 37.80. What is more amazing in this is his strike rate that revolves around 150. As of now, Shubham Dubey has slammed only 1 half century. Yet, we are sure that with time, we are going to see some more great innings from this amazing batter. Stay tuned !
