Delhi: During IPL 2025, everyone will be keeping an eye on the age of the players in every match. On one side, MS Dhoni 43+ years (born 7 July 1981), Faf du Plessis 40+ years (born 13 July 1984), Ravichandran Ashwin 38+ years (born 17 September 1986), Rohit Sharma 37+ years (born 30 April 1987) ) and Karan Sharma will be seen playing at the age of 37 years (born 23 October 1987) while on the other hand youth There will also be a brigade.
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According to the age on the day of auction, these 10 players are ready to showcase their talent at the youngest age:
- Vaibhav Suryavanshi (13 years 243 days),
- C Andre Siddharth (18 years 89 days)
- Kwena Mafaka (18 years 231 days)
- Allah Ghazanfar (18 years 240 days)
- Swastik Chikara (19 years 238 days)
- Musheer Khan (19 years 271 days)
- Arshin Kulkarni (19 years 283 days)
- Noor Ahmed (19 years 326 days)
- Kumar Kushagra (20 years 32 days)
- Sheikh Rasheed (20 years 61 days)
Now it is a different matter that who among these representatives of the Youth Brigade will actually get a chance to be in the playing eleven for their team? Even then, imagine what a spectacle it would be if Vaibhav Suryavanshi plays in the match between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals because on one side there is a difference of 43 years of age between 43 year old MS Dhoni and 13 year old Vaibhav on the front, that is, there is a difference of almost 30 years between the ages of both of them!
If we look for more such age differences in IPL, an interesting example is found in IPL 2023. On one side, there was MS Dhoni and when there was a match in the IPL final between Chennai Super Kings and Noor Ahmed’s (born: 15 August 2000) team Gujarat Titans, both the players who played in that final were more than 23 years old. There was a difference. Noor took the wickets of Devon Conway and Ruturaj Gaikwad while bowling 2/18 in this final.
If we move further back, our focus will be on IPL 2017. In the players list for that season, Praveen Tambe (born 8 October 1971 i.e. around 46 years old at that time) and Washington Sundar (born 5 October 1999 i.e. around 18 years old at that time) were also there and the age between these two was around 28 years. There was a difference of. However, such a record could not actually be made because the copper team Sunrisers Hyderabad did not play him in any match. Praveen missed making a similar record in the 2020 season also. He was bought by KKR in the auction but due to a technical reason he had to be removed from the team even before the start of the season.
So if we look at those players who have played at least one match in a season, the example of Brad Hogg (born 1971) and Ishan Kishan (born 1998) in the 2016 season creates a new kind of record. Both of them were in the Gujarat Lions team at that time and a record of 27 years was created for the biggest age difference between two players playing together in the match. Incidentally, a similar record can be made this time in Chennai Super Kings. Almost 44 year old MS Dhoni will definitely be there in the Chennai Super Kings team and if players like C Andre Siddharth (about 18 years), Noor Ahmed (about 20 years) and Sheikh Rashid (about 20 years) play with him in a match, then what a sight it will be. will be?
Praveen Tambe (1971) comes in the discussion of IPL not only for his bowling but also for his age. Sanju Samson once said in the post-match presentation about Pravin Tambe, the player he played with, who was actually just 5 years younger than his father. That’s why they couldn’t believe that they were playing together in the same team.