Delhi: In IPL 2025, many anonymous players are making recognition with their brilliant performance. Now the name of Prince Yadav of Delhi has also been added to this list. After earning his name from his performance in domestic cricket, Prince made an IPL debut for Lucknow Super Giants. In his second match, he bowled brilliantly and took an important wicket of Travis Head.
Sunrisers Hyderabad faced Lucknow Super Giants in the seventh match of the 18th season of IPL 2025. Rishabh Pant won the toss and decided to bowl first. Hyderabad initially started playing in its old style, but Shardul Thakur of Lucknow gave a big breakthon in the middle. Shardul first dismissed Abhishek Sharma and then Ishaan Kishan.
Although Travis Head was continuously scoring runs from the other end, Prince Yadav bowled brilliantly and dismissed him. On the third ball of the eighth over of Hyderabad's innings, Prince bowled the head clean. Head scored 47 runs off 28 balls, including five fours and three sixes.
Prince Yadav is a right-handed fast bowler, who made a mark in white-ball cricket through the Delhi Premier League. In the 2024 season, he caught everyone's attention with a change in his pace and action while playing for the old Delhi 6 team captained by Rishabh Pant. He made 13 wickets in ten matches and made his home-ball debut in the home team. Earlier, he had played two Ranji Trophy matches.
The 23 -year -old fast bowler Prince is from Delhi and performed brilliantly in the Delhi Premier League 2024. He has been the fifth highest wicket -taking bowler in DPL. He also has a record of taking three consecutive wickets in DPL, ie hat -trick, and he is the only bowler to do this.
Prince played his first T20 match against Uttar Pradesh in the 2024-25 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, which was a day before the IPL 2025 mega auction. In this match, he took two important wickets in Delhi's easy win, including Nitish Rana and Sameer Rizvi's wickets. The next day, Lucknow Super Giants signed him for Rs 30 lakh.
In the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, Prince took 11 wickets at an economy rate of 7.54, who was the highest wicket -taker of Delhi. His brilliant bowling helped Delhi reach the semi -finals. Subsequently, he also took the most wickets for Delhi in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, where he took 11 wickets in six matches at an average of 22.00.