'Keh Kar Gaya Tha Pheli Ball Par Six Marunga...' When Sameer Rizvi Promised to Whack a Six Off The First Ball of His IPL Career

Chennai Super Kings’ Sameer Rizvi could not have asked for a better start to his Indian Premier League (IPL) career. Playing in his second match – and batting for the first time – the 20-year-old came up with a breezy knock of unbeaten 14 runs in six balls against Gujarat Titans on Tuesday. Rizvi swept the first ball he faced in IPL, off Rashid Khan, for a majestic six over the square leg region in the 19th over. The uncapped young India cricketer finished the over with another maximum. Now, his brother Sabool Rizvi has revealed that the Chennai Super Kings cricketer had vowed to hit a six on the very first delivery of his IPL career. Sabool, who watched the game on TV, shared a video of Rizvi’s brilliant batting on Instagram.

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“Keh kar gaya tha pheli bol par six marunga mashallah [He had said that he would hit six off the very first delivery mashallah],” Sabool Rizvi wrote on Instagram.

Sameer Rizvi had secured a mind-boggling IPL contract worth Rs 8.4 crore at the auction held in December last year. Coincidentally, it was Gujarat Titans that was involved in a bidding war with Chennai Super Kings to acquire Rizvi’s services. The destructive middle-order batter was sublime in the latest edition of the UPT20, where he notched 455 runs in nine innings. Rizvi, who hails from Meerut, had scored two centuries and hit the most sixes for his side, Kanpur Superstars, in the competition.

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Rizvi was also instrumental in the CK Nayudu Trophy quarter-finals for UP, where he scored 312 runs off just 266 deliveries. His power-packed knock comprised 33 boundaries and 12 sixes. He has also played for India at the Under-19 level. Rizvi made his Ranji Trophy debut at the age of 16 in 2020.

Having played seven first-class matches so far, Rizvi has scored 96 runs. His cameo against GT last night helped CSK post a mammoth total of 206/6. Shivam Dube was the highest scorer for the five-time champions in the game. The allrounder produced a blistering knock of 51 runs off 23 balls.

GT, during the run chase, kept losing wickets at regular intervals and managed 143 in 20 overs. Deepak Chahar, Mustafizur Rahman, and Tushar Deshpande each picked up two wickets for CSK.