Praful Hinge displayed lethal bowling in his IPL debut match. He took 3 wickets in the very first over, which included the wicket of Vaibhav Suryavanshi. Hinge, who was included in the Sunrisers Hyderabad team, took 4 wickets for 34 runs in 4 overs against Rajasthan Royals, for which he was adjudged Player of the Match. After this match, he became popular on the internet, his videos and reels started going viral. He became a star overnight. Before this match he had less than 4 thousand followers.

In that match played on Monday, Sunrisers Hyderabad had scored 216 runs (vs Rajasthan). While defending the target, Praful Hinge bowled the first over, on the very second ball of which he dismissed Vaibhav Suryavanshi. He walked Dhruv Jurel on the fourth ball and Luan Dre Pretorius on the last ball. Took 3 wickets for 1 run in the first over. Praful created an Instagram account in 2018, from then till last Sunday he had less than 4 thousand followers, which have now crossed 5 lakh.

Followers increased 150 times

Praful Hinge’s Instagram ID is prafulhinge_140. He created this account in 2018. Very few people knew Praful, who played for Vidarbha, he had less than 4 thousand followers on Instagram. But after his debut match against Rajasthan Royals, the whole of India is talking about him. Cricket watchers know that the 4 wickets he took in the debut match were not easy. Vaibhav scored a lot of runs on legendary bowlers like Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar, who were dismissed by Praful on the first ball.

Till the time of writing this news, Praful Hinge has 5 lakh 20 thousand followers on Instagram. He himself follows 403 people, he has made 98 posts so far.

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The first match of IPL 2026 was between RCB and SRH, in which Prafulla got a chance to meet Virat Kohli, so he did not let it go. Prafulla took a photo with Kohli and shared it on Instagram. Prafulla wrote with it, “With the legend.”