Ishan Kishan Profile

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If we are to interconnect Jharkhand and cricket, the one invariable outcome that would come in all our minds is MS Dhoni. However, there is another lad, who is following the mighty MS in his footsteps. Ishan Kishan is not just a cricketer who hails from Jharkhand but just like Mahi, he is a promising wicket-keeper and a hard bludgeoner of the ball.

And just like Dhoni, he displayed a possible potency to captain a team, by leading the India Under-19 side to the finals of the 2016 World Cup. Although he did not impress with the bat in the tournament, he made up for the same by amassing a total of 799 runs in the following Ranji Trophy season.

An explosive batter by default, the Indian Premier League turned out to be a perfect setting for this young lad to stamp his name and presence among global heavyweights in the game. Kishan featured for Gujarat in 2017 and his decent run there earned him a goldmine in the auctions to follow for the next season.

Mumbai lapped him up for an astonishing 6.2 crores in the 2018 auctions. Although not very consistent with the bat initially, Kishan had a breakthrough season in 2020 where he top-scored for Mumbai. His price tag kept on increasing and in the 2022 mega auction as Mumbai spent INR 15.25 crore to reacquire his services.

In February 2021, Ishan was selected for India's T20I squad for their home series against England, marking his first international call-up. He made a memorable debut, scoring 56 runs from 32 balls and earning the Player of the Match award. In June, Ishan was included in India's squads for both ODIs and T20Is for their tour of Sri Lanka. He made his ODI debut during that tour. Later that year, during India's tour of Bangladesh, he made headlines by scoring 210 runs off 131 balls.