Abhishek Sharma (cricketer, born 2000) should not be confused with Abhishek Sharma (cricketer, born 1985).
| Abhishek Sharma | |
| Country: | India |
| Birth Date: | 4 September 2000 |
| Birth Place: | Amritsar, Punjab, India |
| Nickname: | The crowd-puller,[1] Laddu[2] |
| Height: | 5 ft 7 in |
| Batting: | Left-handed |
| Bowling: | Slow left-arm orthodox |
| Role: | Batting-all rounder |
| International: | true |
| Internationalspan: | 2024–present |
| T20idebutdate: | 6 July |
| T20idebutyear: | 2024 |
| T20idebutagainst: | Zimbabwe |
| T20icap: | 111 |
| Lastt20idate: | 7 July |
| Lastt20iyear: | 2024 |
| Lastt20iagainst: | Zimbabwe |
| T20ishirt: | 4 |
| Club1: | Punjab |
| Club2: | Delhi Daredevils |
| Year2: | 2018 |
| Clubnumber2: | 4 |
| Club3: | Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| Clubnumber3: | 18 |
| Columns: | 4 |
| Column1: | FC |
| Matches1: | 24 |
| Runs1: | 1071 |
| Bat Avg1: | 30.6 |
| 100S/50S1: | 1/5 |
| Top Score1: | 100 |
| Deliveries1: | 1674 |
| Wickets1: | 20 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 49.1 |
| Fivefor1: | 0 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | 4/136 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 21/0 |
| Column2: | List-A |
| Matches2: | 53 |
| Runs2: | 1547 |
| Bat Avg2: | 31.5 |
| 100S/50S2: | 3/5 |
| Top Score2: | 169* |
| Deliveries2: | 1374 |
| Wickets2: | 29 |
| Bowl Avg2: | 36.8 |
| Fivefor2: | 0 |
| Tenfor2: | 0 |
| Best Bowling2: | 3/17 |
| Catches/Stumpings2: | 24/0 |
| Column3: | T20 |
| Matches3: | 109 |
| Runs3: | 2795 |
| Bat Avg3: | 30.05 |
| 100S/50S3: | 4/16 |
| Top Score3: | 112 |
| Deliveries3: | 792 |
| Wickets3: | 34 |
| Bowl Avg3: | 28.3 |
| Fivefor3: | 0 |
| Tenfor3: | 0 |
| Best Bowling3: | 3/7 |
| Catches/Stumpings3: | 33/0 |
| Column4: | T20I |
| Matches4: | 5 |
| Runs4: | 124 |
| Bat Avg4: | 31 |
| 100S/50S4: | 1/0 |
| Top Score4: | 100 |
| Deliveries4: | 78 |
| Wickets4: | 2 |
| Bowl Avg4: | 58 |
| Fivefor4: | 0 |
| Tenfor4: | 0 |
| Best Bowling4: | 1/20 |
| Catches/Stumpings4: | 2/0 |
| Date: | 8 July |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Source: | https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/abhishek-sharma-1070183 ESPNcricinfo |
Abhishek Sharma (born 4 September 2000) is an Indian international cricketer who debuted for Indian national cricket team against Zimbabwe in July 2024.[3] In the second match, he hit a maiden century.[4] His role is as an opening batter and a spinner. He plays for Punjab in domestic cricket and Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League (IPL).[5] Sharma was the member of the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup that won the junior world cup.
Abhishek Sharma was born on 4 September 2000 in Amritsar, Punjab to father Raj Kumar Sharma and mother Manju Sharma. Sharma is the youngest of three, with two elder sisters sisters Komal and Sonia.[6] He completed his schooling at Delhi Public School.[6]
Sharma is a childhood friend of Shubman Gill, and they used to open the innings for Punjab in the Under-14s.[7] Yuvraj Singh played a role in coaching Sharma during the COVID-19 lockdown period.[8]
Sharma scored a century in his maiden match in the Under-16 domestic cricket tournament for the 2015–16 Vijay Merchant Trophy. He scored 1,200 runs that tournament at an average of 109.09.[9] [10]
Sharma made his Under-19 debut for Punjab in the Vinoo Mankad Trophy in 2016-17. [11]
He made his debut in first-class cricket for Punjab in the 2017–18 Ranji Trophy on 6 October 2017.[12] He led Punjab to their maiden Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy win in the 2023-24 season finishing as the second-highest run scorer of the tournament with 485 runs from ten innings at an average of 48.50 and a strike rate of 192.46, registering two hundreds and three fifties. [13]
Sharma played in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy for Punjab.[14] On 28 February 2021, playing for Punjab against Madhya Pradesh, he scored the fastest hundred by an Indian in List A cricket, in 42 balls.[15]
In January 2018, he was bought by Delhi Daredevils in the 2018 IPL auction for Rs 5.5 million.[16] [17] [18] On 12 May 2018, he made his debut and went on to score 46 runs off 19 balls.[19]
In February 2022, he was bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad in the auction for the 2022 tournament.[20] [21] During the tournament, he played 14 matches and scored 426 runs.[22] In IPL 2024, he scored the fastest fifty for Sunrisers Hyderabad against Mumbai Indians on 27 March 2024 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium,[23] . He finished the season with 484 runs in 16 matches, with a strike rate of around 200, and 42 sixes in the tournament. He was the second highest run-scorer for Sunrisers Hyderabad that season, after Travis Head.[24] The Sunrisers eventually went on to the finals, where they lost to the Kolkata Knight Riders.
During the 2024 Zimbabwe series, Sharma made his debut on 6 July in the first match against Zimbabwe. He scored his maiden T20I century in the second match against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club on 7 July.[27] [28] With his first international century, Sharma became the first Indian batsman to score a ton in the least number of innings.[29]