Delhi: Among the stories that are most discussed in the current season of IPL 2025, the 55 -run partnership for the 7th wicket between Ashutosh Sharma and Vipraj Nigam against Lucknow Super Gynts and then the exciting win of 1 wicket of Delhi Capitals are prominent. In this victory, Ashutosh Sharma was the hero, who scored an unbeaten 66 off 31 balls, including 5 fours and 5 sixes. The special thing is that he played some great shots to win the team.

• The last 18 balls were to score 39 runs, out of which he scored 32 runs alone. When 38 runs were finally needed from 15 balls, Ashutosh Sharma scored 6, 4 and 6 consecutive runs off Ravi Bishnoi's ball. When 18 runs were required from the last 9 balls, Pesar played tremendous shots of 2, 6 and 4 against Prince Yadav. After scoring 20 runs in the first 20 balls, the last scored 46 runs off 11 balls, including 3 fours and 5 sixes.

Those who used to follow Ashutosh Sharma in cricket in advance, it was not surprising to see them playing in this way and winning the match. In the last season, he did the exactly the same for Punjab Kings with Shashank Singh. This is the reason why the question arises that why Punjab Kings have released a player who has the ability to change the attitude of the match in this way?

In the level of batsmen of Ashutosh Sharma today, training received in the camp of Punjab Kings is a big contribution. This is the reason why Punjab Kings did not take them back today? When Ashutosh Sharma's name came in the mega auction of IPL 2025, he bid between four teams, and finally Delhi Capitals bought him for Rs 3.80 crore, while his base price was only 30 lakh rupees.

Why Punjab Kings did not retain him, the reason was that they had to retain either Ashutosh Sharma or Prabhasimran, as Shashank Singh had already been retained. Finally, Prabhasimran was retained and sent Ashutosh Sharma to the auction. It proved to be a big 'blunder' of the IPL.

To find a batsman like Ashutosh Sharma who can score under pressure, this is a special thing. And the same thing is now saying that Punjab Kings should have retained them against Prabhasimran. Ashutosh's cricket career has been quite struggling. He was ignored several times in domestic cricket, especially because of coaches. But instead of giving up, he worked hard instead of giving up and now at the age of 25, he is spreading his light in the IPL.

In 2018, he started playing cricket for the Madhya Pradesh team, but scored 84 runs against Pondicherry in his last match in 2019. However, he was excluded due to conflict with coach Chandrakant Pandit. Then Ashutosh Sharma was also rejected by coach Nikhil Doru in the railway. In January 2024, he proved his ability by scoring 100 runs against Gujarat in the Ranji Trophy.

Punjab Kings also gave him a chance, but the team management did not show confidence. Now, his brilliant batting against Lucknow proved that he showed his talent to the right team.