IND vs WI Live: Nicholas Pooran smashes half-century – A day after treating his teammates with pizza worth Rs 15,000, Nicholas Pooran justified his whopping Rs 10.75 Cr price tag at the IPL 2022 Auction. Against India, in the 1st T20 at the Eden Gardens, he smashed a 43-ball 61 to help West Indies set a 158-target. Follow IND vs WI 1st T20 Live Updates on InsideSport.IN.
Nicholas Pooran’s auction price of Rs 10.75 raised a few eyebrows after an abysmal IPL 2021 campaign. Furthermore, his complete loss of form in ODIs too didn’t help the cause. It was considered a big gamble by Sunrisers Hyderabad when they pipped KKR and CSK to pick the West Indies wicketkeeper-batsman.
IND vs WI Live: Nicholas Pooran justifies 10.75 Cr price tag at IPL 2022 Auction with half-century against India
On Wednesday though, he looked like a batsman of a different class. After surviving a missed catch, he anchored West Indies from 51/2. With four fours and five sixes, he lit up Eden Gardens, especially taking on Yuzvendra Chahal.
IND vs WI Live: Nicholas Pooran justifies 10.75 Cr price tag at IPL 2022 Auction with half-century against India
Nicholas Pooran shrugs off poor form:
- Pooran’s 10.75 Cr auction price was termed poor business by SRH as the West Indies batsman.
- Pooran scored just 85 runs in 11 matches at an average of 7.73 for Punjab Kings in IPL 2021.
- His poor run continued even in the T20 World Cup when he scored only 103 runs for West Indies at an average of 20.60.
- In the ODIs, he scored just 16 runs against Ireland in three matches at an average of 5.33.
- Against India in the three-match ODI series, he scored only 61 runs in three matches at an average of 20.33.
IND vs WI Live: Nicholas Pooran justifies 10.75 Cr price tag at IPL 2022 Auction with half-century against India
After Nicholas Pooran bagged a fat contract from SRH, the West Indies team was in a celebratory mood ahead of 1st T20 vs India in Kolkata. Most of the Caribbean players have bagged MEGA-IPL contracts at IPL 2022 AUCTION. West Indies batter Nicholas Pooran also celebrated his 10.75 Cr pay-cheque from Sunrisers Hyderabad. Pooran gave a pizza party for his teammates, ordering 15 pizzas that cost him Rs 15,000.
“Since outside food is not allowed he placed the order at the hotel chef for 15 pizzas. It needed to be vetted by a qualified chef. Since it’s a strict grade one biobubble we have to tell the food temperature and how it is sanitised and then only it goes to the room. There were a total of 15 pizza boxes and everything was sanitised before being delivered to the room. The player had to make the payment,” the local manager told PTI.
As the team is in a grade one bio-bubble, everything had to be sanitised and even the temperature had to be maintained.
IND vs WI Live: Nicholas Pooran justifies 10.75 Cr price tag at IPL 2022 Auction with half-century against India
SUNRISERS HYDERABAD:
SRH Complete Squad: Retained: Kane Williamson (14 Cr), Abdul Samad (4 Cr), Umran Malik (4 Cr),
Players Bought By SRH: Aiden Markram (2.6 Cr), Marco Jansen (4.2 Cr), Romario Shepherd (7.75 Cr), Sean Abbott (2.40 Cr), R Samarth (20 L), Vishnu Vinod (50 L), Glenn Phillips (1.5 Cr), Fazalhaq Farooqi (50 L), Washington Sundar (8.75 Cr), Nicholas Pooran (10.75 Cr), T Natarajan (4 Cr), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (4.2 Cr), Priyam Garg (20 L), Rahul Tripathi (8.5 Cr), Abhishek Sharma (6.5 Cr), Kartik Tyagi (4 Cr), Shreyas Gopal (75 L), Jagadeesha Suchith (20 L), Saurabh Dubey (20 L), Shashank Singh (20 L)
IND vs WI Live: Nicholas Pooran justifies 10.75 Cr price tag at IPL 2022 Auction with half-century against India
