Ranji Trophy 2025: Jammu and Kashmir team has defeated Rajasthan by an innings and 141 runs in the second round of Ranji Trophy 2025. This match played on the ground of Srinagar was entirely in the name of one player, fast bowler Aaqib. He bowled brilliantly and took 10 wickets in the entire match and put Rajasthan’s batsmen completely on the backfoot.

Aaqib Nabi single-handedly turned the match

In the first innings, Aaqib prevented Rajasthan from making a big score by taking three wickets. After that, he wreaked havoc in the second innings. He sent 7 batsmen to the pavilion and the entire Rajasthan team collapsed for just 89 runs. On the basis of his lethal bowling, Aaqib Nabi also won the Player of the Match award.

Not Umran Malik, now discussion about Aaqib Nabi

A few years ago, whenever there was talk of cricket in Jammu and Kashmir, the name of Umran Malik was the first to come to mind. Umran was one of the fastest bowlers in India, but in recent months Umran Malik has lost his rhythm. He also played in this match against Rajasthan, but could not take a single wicket. On the other hand, Aaqib Nabi has attracted everyone’s attention with his performance. Now the entire cricket world is praising this new “speed star” of Jammu and Kashmir.

Who is Aaqib Nabi?

28 year old Aaqib Nabi comes from Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir. His father is a school teacher. Aqib is also very good in studies. His talent was recognized during a talent hunt and after that he started taking cricket seriously. Interestingly, there were no formal coaching facilities in Baramulla at that time, so Aaqib started learning by watching Dale Steyn’s videos to improve himself. He considers Stan as his “virtual coach”.

Career and achievements

Till now Aaqib Nabi has played 33 first-class, 29 List A, and 27 T20 matches. He has taken 113 wickets in first class cricket, 42 wickets in List A, and 28 wickets in T20. It is clear from his ever increasing success that Jammu and Kashmir cricket has now got a new star.

Indian players have created panic in the Buchi Babu tournament. After 2 centuries of Sarfaraz Khan, now star Pesar Umran Malik returned to the cricket ground on Tuesday. He took 2 wickets while playing for Jammu and Kashmir in the match against Odisha. These two wickets were special because he dismissed both Odisha opening batsman, Binaya and T Munde in two balls.

T Munde tried to defend the last ball of the second over of the innings, but the ball came out with the edge of his bat. This video of Umran Malik blowing stumps is going viral on social media. At the same time, when Umran came to bowl in the fourth over of the innings, this time he bowled Binaya.

This was the first cricket match of Umran Malik after March 2024. Earlier, his last match came to Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2024. Prior to IPL 2025, SRH released him, while in the mega auction, KKR bid a bid of Rs 75 lakh and included him in his squad, but he could get a match in the first season, he got hurt. Chetan Sakaria was brought as his replacement.

Selection was done in Team India

Umran Malik made his debut for Team India in the year 2022. Actually, IPL contributed to him in getting him a place in the Indian team. It was the IPL 2022 season when Umran took 22 wickets in 14 matches for Sunrisers Hyderabad. The same year he got his debut in Team India.

Umran Malik, who has thrown the ball at a speed of 157 km per hour, has so far taken 13 wickets in 10 ODIs for India and 11 wickets in 8 T20 matches.

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Umran Malik Stay Hyderabad IPL 2025: The army of India and Pakistan are face to face, due to which IPL 2025 has been suspended for a week (IPL 2025 Suspend News). Indian and all other foreign players have been sent to their homes. Meanwhile, a new update has come out about Umran Malik. Umran Malik is a resident of Jammu, but he has been advised to stay in Hyderabad. On May 10, SRH’s match was scheduled to take place in Hyderabad with Kolkata Knight Riders, for which Umran reached Hyderabad with his team.

According to a Bengali news agency, Umran Malik’s family has advised him not to come home for some time. The reason for this is being told about the continuous firing from Pakistan. After the suspension of IPL 2025, BCCI Vice President Rajiv Shukla had said that after discussing with all the parties in the coming days, the new schedule will be approved.

Umran Malik is out of IPL 2025

Umran Malik was dropped from the IPL 2025 tournament due to injury. Despite this, he was traveling with the Kolkata Knight Riders team under the ‘Return to Cricket’ program. Umran could not play a single match this season until he was out of the tournament. He has so far taken 29 wickets in his IPL career by playing 26 matches.

There have been a total of 58 matches in IPL 2025 so far, there are 12 matches left in the league stage, after which the playoff phase is to begin. It is being speculated that after the Indo-England Test series, the remaining matches of IPL 2025 can be done. However, it is also worth noting that the tournament has been stopped for just one week.

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