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NEW DELHI: Who is Praful Hinge? That question rapidly started trending aft the 24-year-old pacer from Vidarbha rattled Rajasthan Royals’ apical bid successful Sunrisers Hyderabad’s IPL 2026 clash astatine the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium successful Hyderabad.
On debut, Hinge tore done the lineup, dismissing Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel and Lhuan-dre Pretorius - each for ducks - to permission RR successful heavy trouble.Handing Hinge his IPL debut turned retired to beryllium a masterstroke for Sunrisers Hyderabad. The young seamer, picked up for Rs 30 lakh astatine the IPL 2026 auction, had already built a coagulated estimation successful home cricket. In 10 first-class matches, helium had taken 27 wickets astatine an mean of 26.7, showing his quality to vessel long, disciplined spells.
Though comparatively caller to T20s, helium had impressed successful his constricted opportunities, including a tidy outing alongside Umesh Yadav.
Praful the destroyer: How the wickets fellHinge made an contiguous impact.Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (duck):He bowled a hard-length transportation that roseate slightly. Sooryavanshi tried to propulsion it aggressively but mistimed the shot. The shot went consecutive up successful the air, and the wicketkeeper settled nether it to implicit an casual catch.Dhruv Jurel (duck):Hinge followed it up with a transportation extracurricular disconnected stump. Jurel tried to defend, but the shot came backmost successful slightly, took the wrong edge, and crashed into the stumps.
Lhuan-dre Pretorius (duck):For his 3rd wicket, Hinge bowled a fuller shot that swung away. Pretorius attempted to flick it but couldn’t support it down. The shot went precocious successful the air, and a fielder successful the heavy completed a comfy catch.In the abstraction of conscionable 1 over, Hinge had reduced Rajasthan Royals to 1/3, announcing himself successful stunning manner connected the IPL stage.
