Aniket Verma Gets Special Praise From Australian Captain After IPL 2025 Heroics. (IPL/BCCI)
Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Pat Cummins is not too worried after the orange army suffered back-to-back losses in IPL 2025 and instead chose to focus on the positives by praising young Aniket Verma for his heroics with the willow.
"It's too early to worry about being two down, hopefully we'll get back going forward, as I said, we need to have a look at a few of our options. Maybe we just need to do one or two things differently and the results would change," Cummins said at the post-match presentation ceremony.
"Overall, guys have shown glimpses of what they can do, don't think we'll change too much."
"We didn't get going, didn't get a score on the board. A few wrong shots, but catches in the deep does happen in this format of the game.
"I don't think it's a big margin, on another day, you get going with a couple of shots, not everything went our way in the last two games, we can look back and think about different options."
Had it not been for Ankiet Verma's fighting 74-run knock, SRH would have struggled to cross even 150.
Praising the youngster, Cummins said, "Coming into the tournament, everyone was super impressed with him (Aniket) going into the lead-up to the tournament, which was fantastic and gave us half a chance, was impressive with the way he went about things (during the net sessions and practice games)."
Who Is Aniket Verma?
Aniket Verma once again impressed everyone with his explosive batting as he smacked DC bowlers all around the park and brought up his maiden IPL fifty on Sunday at Visakhapatnam.
Verma caught the attention of IPL scouts last year when he had a terrific outing in the Madhya Pradesh Premier League in 2024 and scored 273 runs in six innings, which included a 32-ball 100 and 25 sixes in total.
Verma, who was born in Jhansi, lost his mother when he was just three years old and was raised by his uncle. Despite the personal setback, Aniket never lost focus and trained at the Railway Youth Cricket Club before joining the Faith Cricket Club, after which he gained recognition in domestic tournaments.
(With Agency Inputs)
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