Built his own cricket academy for practice, sweated for hours, now created havoc in the very first match of IPL 2025
To perform well in IPL 2025, a player worked a lot on himself in the last few times. This player had built his own academy for practice and sweated for hours every day. Due to which this player was successful in playing an explosive innings in the very first match of the season.
IPL 2025 has started very excitingly. In the first three matches of the season, fans have got to see one game better than the other. However, the most talked about match is the one played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Rajasthan Royals. More than 500 runs were scored in this match.
The SRH team once again showed a stormy game and scored 286 runs in 20 overs. Ishan Kishan played the biggest role in this.
This was Ishan Kishan's debut match for SRH and he made it very memorable. There is also hard work hidden behind his strong innings, about which very few people know.
Ishan Kishan's hard work paid off
Last year has not been anything special for Ishan Kishan. He was first shown the way out of Team India and then the BCCI did not even give him a central contract.
After this, in IPL 2024, he could score only 320 runs at an average of 22.85. Due to which Mumbai Indians also did not retain him nor bought him in the auction.
But Ishan left the disappointment behind and focused on his game and prepared for a strong comeback. He used this time well.
Ishan Kishan used to train at Mumbai Indians' ground in Ghansoli earlier. But this time he built his own cricket academy in his hometown Patna with his own money and practiced here.
He used to practice in two sessions every day. The morning session in his academy focused on cricket skills, which lasted for two-three hours. In the evening, he used to spend time in the gym or do speed training for one or two hours.
Not only this, Ishan used to spend the evening analyzing videos of his batting practice to reduce his technical flaws. During this time he also got a chance to spend time with his family, which helped him stay fresh.
Scored a century in the very first match of IPL 2025
The effect of this strong training of Ishan Kishan was seen in his very first innings this season. He made the match memorable by scoring an unbeaten 106 runs in 47 balls against Rajasthan Royals.
During this, 11 fours and 6 sixes were seen from his bat. He scored these runs at a strike rate of 225.53. This was also the first century of his IPL career. Before this, his best score was 99 runs, which came in the year 2020.