Devdutt Padikkal had already made giant strides in Indian domestic cricket with a string of consistent and magnificent performances in the Karnataka side. Padikkal was picked by the Royal Challengers Bangalore and there was immediate excitement as a young talent was been groomed. Padikkal lived up to the hype and he blasted a fifty on debut against Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in IPL 2020 on Monday.
Padikkal opened the batting with Australian ODI skipper Aaron Finch and immediately, he took the attack to the Sunrisers Hyderabad bowlers. Padikkal smashed two boundaries off Sandeep Sharma and increased his aggression by hammering three boundaries of left-arm pacer T Natarajan. Finch got going with some big sixes and he notched up his fifty with a slog sweep of Abhishek Sharma as Rashid Khan misjudged the catch.
Padikkal became the fifth…