1 hour ago
4
ARTICLE AD BOX
Tejasvi Singh Dahiya (Image credit: X)
NEW DELHI: The wounded to Angkrish Raghuvanshi during Kolkata Knight Riders’ IPL 2026 clash against Mumbai Indians rapidly sparked curiosity among fans, with galore asking connected societal media: Who is Tejasvi Singh Dahiya?Raghuvanshi was yet replaced by Tejasvi Singh Dahiya arsenic KKR’s concussion substitute astatine Eden Gardens.
The incidental took spot successful the 11th implicit erstwhile Raghuvanshi sprinted successful and stretched afloat successful an effort to drawback a catch. During the effort, helium collided with Varun Chakravarthy portion chasing the shot and appeared to wounded his finger.The youngster looked uncomfortable instantly aft the collision and was soon taken disconnected the tract by the KKR physio. Dahiya archetypal came successful arsenic the substitute wicketkeeper earlier officially replacing Raghuvanshi arsenic the concussion substitute during KKR’s chase.
Who is Tejasvi Singh Dahiya?
The 23-year-old wicketkeeper-batter from Delhi changeable into the limelight aft an awesome run successful the Delhi Premier League, which yet earned him an IPL woody with KKR.Despite entering the IPL 2026 auction with a humble basal terms of Rs 30 lakh, Dahiya was snapped up by Kolkata Knight Riders for a monolithic Rs 3 crore. KKR had to fend disconnected bidding contention from Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals to unafraid his signature.
His banal roseate sharply aft a singular Delhi Premier League play wherever helium amassed 339 runs astatine an mean of 48.43 and an explosive onslaught complaint of 190.45.Dahiya besides smashed 29 sixes and scored 4 half-centuries during the tournament, performances that made IPL franchises instrumentality notice.Interestingly, the Delhi youngster had gone unsold successful the IPL 2025 auction earlier turning things astir dramatically wrong a twelvemonth done accordant home performances.Coming from an world family, with some parents serving arsenic mathematics and economics teachers, Dahiya’s emergence from being unsold to landing a Rs 3 crore IPL declaration has been 1 of the standout stories of the IPL 2026 season.
