Devdutt Padikkal is an Indian left-handed batsman, who plays for Karnataka in domestic and the Royal Challengers Banglore (RCB) in the IPL 2020.<\/p>\n
Devdutt Padikkal made his IPL debut\u00a0 for Royal Challengers Banglore (RCB) against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on September 21. Devdutt has become an RCB sensation after he scored 56 off 42 balls before losing it in the 11th over. A lot of cricket experts have already named him as the next big thing.<\/p>\n
Devdutt Padikkal came into limelight when he scored 580 runs in the 2019 Syed Mushtaq Ali tournament. Devdutt Padikkal was the leading run scorer in the competition with an average of 64 and carried a strike-rate of 175 including one hundred and half-centuries.<\/span><\/p>\n Here are some interesting facts to know about the youngster Devdutt Padikkal:<\/p>\n 1. Devdutt started playing cricket ate a very young age of 11.<\/p>\n 2. In 2007, Devdutt Padikkal was selected by Bellary Tuskers in the Karnataka Premier League (KPL).<\/p>\n 3. Devdutt Padikkal has won the \u2018 Emerging player\u2019 award in 2017 KPL season.<\/p>\n 4. Devdutt Padikkal was awarded with the \u2018Best Batsman\u2019 award in 2018 by Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) for his outstanding performance in Cooch Behar Trophy where, Devdutt scored 829 score.<\/p>\n 5. Devdutt Padikkal made his first-class debut for Karnataka at the age of 18, in the 2018-19 Ranji Trophy.<\/p>\n 6. Devdutt Padikkal made his List A debut for Karnataka in 2019-20 Vijay Hazare Trophy. Padikkal was a leading sun-scorer at Vijay Hazare Trophy, where he made 609 runs in eleven matches.<\/p>\n 7. In October 2019, Padikkal was selected in the India A squad for the 2019-20 Deodhar Trophy.<\/p>\n 8. Devdutt Padikkal is also a right-arm off-break bowler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Devdutt Padikkal is an Indian left-handed batsman, who plays for Karnataka in domestic and the Royal Challengers Banglore (RCB) in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":39228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[829],"class_list":["post-18508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-devdutt-padikkal"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}