SMAT 2025: The explosive batsman, who plays for CSK in the IPL, has created a storm with the bat in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He destroyed the ground by scoring a century in 31 balls. His team has won in spectacular fashion.
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy: The dashing batsman of Chennai Super Kings has created havoc with the bat in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. This is the same batsman who has broken the record of Universe Boss Chris Gayle in T20 cricket. Now once again played a stormy innings with the bat and scored a century in 31 balls. Gymkhana Ground of Hyderabad has witnessed this explosive innings. The bowlers of the Services team just kept looking towards the sky. He hit a total of 10 sixes in the innings. This is the third fastest century scored by any batsman in T20 cricket.
Urvil Patel scored a brilliant century
We are not talking about anyone else, but Gujarat batsman Urvil Patel. He scored his century with the help of 10 sixes and 12 sixes in 31 balls. Batting first, the Services team scored 182 runs losing 9 wickets. In reply, Arya Desai, who came to open for Gujarat, tore apart the front bowlers in Urvil. Both of them made a quick partnership of 174 runs for the first wicket, due to which the match went one-sided. Urvil scored 119 runs in 37 balls, Desai also scored 60 runs.
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Urvil has played for CSK
Urvil Patel played a total of three matches for Chennai Super Kings last season. However, he did not score much runs with his bat in those innings. He scored 66 runs in 3 matches, in which his highest individual score was 37 runs. Despite this, this young batsman has been retained by Chennai for IPL 2026. He has experience of playing 50 T20 matches. At the same time, he also participated in 22 List A and 15 first-class cricket. His biggest weakness is that he does not play long innings most of the time. But, on the day we play, there is a storm with the bat. The way runs are coming out of his bat continuously. Looking at him, it seems that he can become a big match winner for Chennai in IPL 2026.
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