PRIYANS a young left-handed batsman brought home the Delhi Premier League as a golden opportunity.
On the second day of the big auction of IPL 2025, the name of an uncapped player echoed a lot. Delhi Capitals, Royal Challengers Bangalore, and Mumbai Indians or Punjab Kings, all these four teams fought fiercely for left-handed opener batsman Priyansh Arya. Arya finally became a part of Punjab Kings for Rs 3.8 crore, but the question in everyone’s mind was who is this Priyansh Arya?
When the Delhi Premier League first season started this year, cricketers playing from the club here got a chance to prove themselves on a big stage. He was the opening batsman of South Delhi Superstars. Now if we talk about his statistics, you will be surprised to know that he had scored the highest 608 runs in 10 matches.
A look at his Delhi Premier League innings
In the very first match, he got 57 runs in 30 balls against Old Delhi 6. Arya, who became the player of the match in the very first match, then got 82 runs including seven sixes and three fours in 51 balls against Central Delhi Kings and once again became the player of the match. Playing his match against East Delhi Strikers, he scored 53 runs in 32 balls. He made his first century of the season in the following match against Old Delhi.
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In this inning of 107 runs in 55 balls, he had nine fours and seven sixes. After this, Arya’s journey did not end. He again scored 88 runs in 42 balls against Central Delhi. Then came the match which grabbed the attention of the whole world. Against North Delhi Strikers, South Delhi scored a mountain-like score of 308 runs for five wickets in 20 overs, in which Arya’s bat again scored 120 runs in 50 balls. In the same league, he also hit six sixes in an over in a match.
Overall, he managed to achieve the highest number of 608 runs in the Delhi Premier League (DPL 2024) at an overall strike rate of 198.69 and an average of 67.56, which also had two centuries and four half-centuries in his name. He hit as many as 43 sixes in 10 matches.
He scored a century before Bhuvi and Mavi, IPL 2025
Due to his performance, Arya was selected for the Delhi team in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy this time too. He scored 102 runs in 43 balls against Uttar Pradesh where the opposing team had some veteran bowlers like Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Piyush Chawla, and Shivam Mavi. This innings came at the right time for Arya and most of the franchises noticed him and the auction started a day later. Meanwhile, in his YouTube show, R Ashwin talked to Washington Sundar about his pickup shots.
Talking about the last season, he scored the highest 222 runs for Delhi in SMAT, in which his strike rate was 166.7 and the average was 31.71 and he also scored two half-centuries in seven matches.
Gambhir’s coach Sanjay Bhardwaj gave him training for the IPL 2025
Arya’s parents are teachers in a government school. While Arya got cricket coaching from Sanjay Bhardwaj, who was the coach of the current coach of the Indian team, Gautam Gambhir. Kumar Karthikeya, who took training under the guidance of Bhardwaj, made headlines in the IPL 2025 two years ago.
This year, he will hopefully get
How did he get connected to the Punjab Kings?
In IPL 2025-Aarya, who was auctioned for a price of 30 lakhs, was first bid by Delhi Capitals. Then Punjab Kings came into the fray. The bidding slowly went up to one crore. Meanwhile, another franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore entered the fray. Now the battle had turned triangular.
The Bangalore was leading with a bid of 1.4 crores, but Punjab Kings came with a bid of 1.5 crores and finally won the battle this time for 3.8 crores.
What did he say before Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy?
Priyansh said, “I scored the most runs in SMAT for Delhi last year, but there was no consistency. I am focusing on consistency this year and that was the focus in the off-season practice. Apart from this, my goal is to make it to the Ranji team because I have not been able to debut there yet.
Last year I gave trials for almost all the IPL teams, everything went well, but then there was no call from anywhere. It is good that this year IPL 2025 scouts are coming to DPL to watch us play. When I play a match, my focus is only on the match, but IPL also keeps going on in my mind somewhere.
” “When I was young, I used to watch Gautam Gambhir Sir bat in the nets. When I grew up a little, I started talking to him. Apart from this, Ayush Badoni is a good friend of mine. He is also our captain in DPL and he also has IPL experience. So I talk to him a lot on and off the pitch and his experience is very useful to me.”
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