Strong half-century from Nicholas Pooran (Photo-PTI)
Nicholas Pooran Fifty: Nicholas Pooran's bat finally made its debut in IPL 2026. Puran played a stormy innings against Mumbai Indians and scored 63 runs in 21 balls. You can get an idea of the innings of this left-handed batsman from the fact that he hit a six on every second ball and he scored a half-century in just 16 balls. Nicholas Puran scored a half-century against Mumbai in just 16 balls, which is his fastest half-century against Mumbai. Puran hit 7 sixes to reach his half-century. In the entire innings, 8 sixes came from his bat.
Nicholas Puran made this record
Nicholas Pooran made a big record with his half-century innings. He has scored his fastest half-century against Mumbai in Mumbai. By the way, in IPL this player has also scored a half-century in 15 balls. Nicholas Pooran is the player to score the fastest half-century for Lucknow Supergiants and he has scored fifty in the least number of balls in four of the top 5 innings. Let us tell you that Puran also left Vaibhav Suryavanshi behind. Puran has scored a half-century for the fifth time in less than 20 balls. Suryavanshi has done this feat four times. Abhishek Sharma has done this feat maximum 6 times.
Putting the Wankhede crowd on catch-practice duty 🚀
🎥 Nicholas Pooran is operating on a completely different planet tonight 🪐
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Nicholas Puran proved his team wrong
Let us tell you that Nicholas Puran proved his team's strategy wrong with this half-century. This player was not fielded at number 3 even once in the last 8 matches, but against Mumbai, Puran was given a chance to bat at his best number and this player also proved himself. Puran hit a six on the fourth ball of his innings. This player hit 3 sixes in Will Jacques' over. After this he hit 2 sixes on Ghazanfar's balls. He completed his century by hitting a six off the ball of Deepar Chahar.
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