Swapnil Singh Story: From playing under-19 cricket with Kohli to taking the wicket of Dhoni, know the story of RCB’s ‘Lucky charm’


Swapnil Singh has played Under-19 cricket with Virat Kohli and was also his room partner during a tour.

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Swapnil Singh Story: Royal Challengers Bangalore have made it to the IPL 2024 playoffs by defeating Chennai Super Kings in the last match of the league stage. All-rounder player Swapnil Singh has emerged as a lucky charm for RCB, ever since he has been playing in the playing 11, the team has not lost a single match.

The game of cricket is full of struggles for every player, no one achieves success after going through difficult situations. Then someone feels disappointed. The story of RCB player Swapnil Singh has also been full of difficulties. After the team reached the playoffs, he shared his emotional journey (Swapnil Singh Story) with the fans.

Swapnil Singh Story: There are more things to conquer the world – Swapnil Singh

Swapnil Singh had made up his mind to quit cricket. And IPL 2024 was a last chance for him, but then he was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore. While talking on the video shared by RCB, Swapnil said, ‘Auction On the day of, I was going to Dehradun to play Ranji, and we landed around 7-8 pm. The last round of IPL auction was going on and till that time nothing had happened. I clearly thought to myself, it’s over now.’

Swapnil further said, ‘I will play the current season (Ranji), and if needed, I will play the next season too and will say goodbye to it because I do not want to play my whole life, there are other things to do to win the world. But when my family called, we were devastated. Many people don’t know what an emotional journey it was…it was just that.

Irfan Pathan helped a lot

33-year-old Swapnil Singh made his Ranji Trophy debut for Baroda at the age of 14. He has played Under-19 cricket with Virat Kohli and was also his room partner during a tour. Also, Kohli and Swapnil were also part of the Under-15 NCA camp in 2004.

Swapnil Singh was first bought by Mumbai Indians in 2008. Swapnil got his first IPL wicket of Mahendra Singh Dhoni when he was playing for Punjab Kings under the captaincy of Glenn Maxwell. He was the leading run-scorer for Baroda in the 2016ā€“17 Duleep Trophy. In 2019, he was at number-2 or number-3 in the ranking of all-rounders in India.

Then after Covid, Swapnil Singh did not get a place in the Baroda team. After which he decided to leave the Baroda team. Then with the help of Irfan Pathan he found a new state team. Swapnil Singh became a net bowler for Lucknow Super Giants with the help of his friend Deepak Hooda. Where he also improved his batting under the supervision of Andy Flower and Gautam Gambhir.



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