Rinku Singh, playing for Uttar Pradesh in the group stage match of Ranji Trophy, scored his second consecutive century. He played a brilliant inning of 176 runs against Tamil Nadu, in which he hit 17 fours and 6 sixes. This is also Rinku’s best score in first class.

There is a lot of excitement going on in India’s prestigious first class cricket competition Ranji Trophy. Many big players perform brilliantly in this tournament and make a place in the Indian national cricket team, hence the players try to do well in it. Rinku Singh is also one of them, who has played for the national team but as of now his place is not considered confirmed. Meanwhile, he played an innings which could impress the selectors.

Played the biggest first class innings

Rinku Singh’s inning of 176 runs played against Tamil Nadu in Ranji Trophy is the biggest first class inning of his career. Rinku Singh, who played for KKR in IPL, had also scored a century in his last Ranji Trophy match. He scored an unbeaten 165 runs in the match against Andhra in October. Let us tell you that he also bowled in both the matches, although he could not get any wicket.

Talking about Rinku Singh’s first class cricket career, he has scored 3677 runs in 52 matches, which includes 9 centuries and 22 half-centuries. He has debuted for India in ODI and T20. He has scored 55 runs in 2 ODIs and 550 runs in 35 T20s.

staked claim for test team

The performance that Rinku Singh has made in the Ranji Trophy has forced the selectors to think whether Rinku Singh can be included in the Test team as well. Currently, the Test series is going on between India and South Africa, in the first match of which Team India lost while chasing the target of 124 runs.

Rinku Singh plays for KKR

Kolkata Knight Riders have retained only 12 players before the IPL 2026 auction, one of which is Rinku Singh. Rinku is the main player of the team, who was retained by the franchise for Rs 13 crore last year. The big thing is that before that his IPL price was less than Rs 1 crore.