Jammu, May, 30: Jammu and Kashmir speedster Umran Malik has bagged another honor after he was named `Emerging Player’ of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022.
Jos Buttler won `Most Valuable Playe’, while his teammate Yuzvendra Chahal won the Orange Cap with 27 wickets. Sunrisers Hyderabad star Umran Malik won the `Emerging Player award’. Umran took Rs 10 lakh.
Umran was quite a find this season. He regularly clocked above 150 kmph with ease in a stellar first full season in the IPL. Jammu and Kashmiri pacer finished with 22 wickets for the season.
Jos Buttler won `Most Valuable Playe’, while his teammate Yuzvendra Chahal won the Orange Cap with 27 wickets. Sunrisers Hyderabad star Umran Malik won the `Emerging Player award’. Umran took Rs 10 lakh.
Umran was quite a find this season. He regularly clocked above 150 kmph with ease in a stellar first full season in the IPL. Jammu and Kashmiri pacer finished with 22 wickets for the season.
Malik, who Sunrisers Hyderabad retained for IPL 2022, is already one of the fastest bowlers in India. However, though he has sent down deliveries over 150kmph this season, the Jammu and Kashmir player has picked up only three wickets this season in four matches, conceding at 10.42 runs an over.
SRH retained him for Rs 4 crore along with captain Kane Williamson and all-rounder Abdul Samad, also from Jammu and Kashmir.
Coming from a humble background, Malik’s father runs a fruit stall in Jammu. A class X dropout, Malik is the only brother of his elder sisters.
Last season, Umran Malik was with the SunRisers as a net bowler. But after T Natarajan tested positive for COVID, Malik has named his replacement.
Malik made his competitive debut last year. He has picked a total of four wickets having played one T20 and List A match for Jammu and Kashmir. Malik made his T20 debut for Jammu and Kashmir in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in January last year. In his T20 debut vs Railways, he returned with the impressive figures of 3/24nt.
