It was an Akash Madhwal present on the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Wednesday because the younger quick bowler picked up 5 wickets to information Mumbai Indians to victory over Lucknow Super Giants within the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 Eliminator. The figures of 5/5 in 3.3 overs was sufficient to place him in an elite checklist comprising huge names like Anil Kumble and Jasprit Bumrah. However, simply 4 years in the past, Madhwal was enjoying tennis ball cricket and had by no means touched a pink ball.

Madhwal, who studied engineering, turned the primary cricketer from the state of Uttarakhand to play within the IPL after he was picked by MI in 2022 as a substitute for the injured Suryakumar Yadav.

In 2019, he caught the eye of the then Uttarakhand coach Wasim Jaffer and current coach Manish Jha and that resulted within the quick bowler beginning his apply with the pink ball.

What adopted was a fairytale run for Madhwal within the home season and forward of the 2023 home season, the quick bowler was rewarded for his efforts as Uttarakhand named him the white-ball skipper.

The MI bowler additionally has an fascinating reference to India wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant.

Both cricketers hail from the identical space in from Uttarakhand and through his early life, Madhwal additionally educated beneath Avtar Singh, the cricket coach who educated Pant earlier than he moved to Delhi.

“He (Akash) was the part of the team last year as a support bowler, and once Jofra was gone and I knew he had skills and the character to do the job for us. Over the years we have seen many guys coming in from Mumbai Indians and playing for India,” MI skipper Rohit Sharma stated after the match.