Aniket Verma, the new explosive batsman of Sunrisers Hyderabad played a brilliant innings against Delhi Capitals. New stars are coming out in IPL 2025 and Aniket Verma is one of them! After the dhamakedar top order of SRH failed, Aniket took the responsibility of giving SRH a better total and scored a brilliant 74 runs in just 41 balls. Aniket displayed his power hitting by hitting 6 sixes and 5 fours. While batting first, SRH made only 37 runs in his first over giving away 4 wickets, then Aniket’s brilliant batting took the team’s total to 163.
Delhi Capitals had to score 164 runs to win, Mitchell Starc bowled brilliantly and destroyed SRH’s strongest batting line-up and took 5 wickets. But Aniket Verma played explosive batting and took the team to a defendable total and won the hearts of the fans too! Playing against Lucknow Super Giants, he scored 36 runs in 13 balls which included 5 sixes. Now all the cricket fans have only one question – Who is this Aniket Verma?
Who is Aniket Verma?
Aniket Verma was born in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh but his cricket journey started from Madhya Pradesh. While playing for Bhopal Leopards in the Madhya Pradesh Premier League, he attracted everyone’s attention by scoring 273 runs in just 6 matches. The IPL franchise was also amazed to see Aniket’s amazing batting and power hitting ability and in the IPL 2025 auction, Sunrisers Hyderabad bought Aniket for 30 lakhs. In an interview given to Dainik Bhaskar, Aniket told that his wish is to learn about fitness, bat-flow and power hitting qualities from Hardik Pandya.
Aniket Verma is not only named Hardik Pandya but also legends like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, MS Dhoni and Jasprit Bumrah and said that he wants to learn new ways of playing cricket from them. Aniket’s brilliant batting in IPL 2025 proved that he is a very talented cricketer. Seeing his explosive batting style, it seems that he can prove to be a great finisher for Team India in the future.