5. Ayush Badoni
Ayush Badoni has quickly made a name for himself as a free-stroking, brave cricketer who doesn’t crumble under pressure at the top of the order.
That’s when all he possesses is a combined experience of no more than 13 IPL games from which he’s collected 161 runs at a strike rate touching 124.
That’s not an awful lot.
But that 54 of his 161 IPL runs (and this is his first season) came in a vital contest against Gujarat Titans made a case for the right hander who was acquired for INR 20 lakh in the 2022 auctions.
During his whirlwind 41-ball-knock, Badoni stepped down the wicket to famous bowlers like Shami and didn’t hold himself back even against the likes of Rashid Khan.
Moreover, that the dainty cricketer scored a fifty upon his IPL debut was something truly remarkable; prior to that knock he’d scored just 7 runs on the whole from 5 T20 games.
