The 21st match of the 16th season of IPL is currently being played between the teams of Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and Punjab Kings (PBKS) at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. In this match, the Punjab team decided to include 31-year-old player Harpreet Singh Bhatia in their playing 11. Harpreet had earlier played his last IPL match in the 2012 season.
Harpreet Singh Bhatia now holds the record of playing with the most difference between 2 matches in IPL. He was also a part of the Indian team in the 2010 ICC Under-19 World Cup, which also included players like KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal. Harpreet was made a part of the team of Kolkata Knight Riders in the year 2010. After this, in the year 2011, Harpreet was made a part of the team of Pune Warriors.
The Royal Challengers Bangalore team did include Harpreet in their team after Sarfaraz Khan was injured in the year 2017, but he could not get a chance to play in a single match. Now against Lucknow, he got a chance to play in IPL after 3,981 days.
10 years and 332 days later, Harry Paaji is back in the middle in the IPL!
Sadda 🦁 @HarpreetCricket makes his #PBKS debut.#LSGvPBKS #JazbaHaiPunjabi #SaddaPunjab #TATAIPL pic.twitter.com/HApMEKu93K
— Punjab Kings (@PunjabKingsIPL) April 15, 2023
Earlier this record was in the name of Matthew Wade
Indian Premier League The record of playing matches in the middle of the longest gap was in the name of Matthew Wade before Harpreet Singh Bhatia, who played his next IPL match directly in the 2022 season after the 2011 season. Wayne Purnell is at number three in this list, who played his next match in this season after the 2014 season.
Harpreet Singh Bhatia, who played domestic cricket for Chhattisgarh, also captained the team in the last Ranji season, apart from this, he has also played for the Madhya Pradesh team in domestic cricket.
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