Ishan Kishan IPL Profile

Ishan Pranav Kishan is an Indian international cricketer, who also plays for Jharkhand in domestic cricket. Ishan, nicknamed as 'Pocket Dynamo', was born on July 18, 1998, in Patna, Bihar, India. Kishan is a left-handed batter and a right-arm leg-break bowler, in addition to occasionally wicket-keeping. In December 2014, Kishan made his first-class debut for Jharkhand. Kishan initially got the selectors' attention in 2014 when he played in his first Ranji season, recording a hundred and five fifties. 

During a Ranji Trophy match against Delhi in November 2016, Kishan made 273 runs, setting a record for the most runs by a Jharkhand player in the competition. The young man gained attention before that when he was chosen to captain the India U19 side at the 2016 ICC U19 World Cup in Bangladesh. Despite having a poor batting performance (73 runs in six innings), he led India to the finals and eventually finished as the runner-up to West Indies.

Ishan's impressive captaincy at the Under-19 World Cup in 2016 didn't go unnoticed by the IPL franchise. The Gujarat Lions initially bought him in IPL 2016 for Rs 35 lakh. Kishan played 16 matches over two seasons for the Gujarat franchise and scored 319 runs. 
After the side went defunct, Mumbai Indians acquired him in the 2018 auction. Kishan flourished under Rohit Sharma's captaincy as he scored 500-plus runs and shot the most sixes in the season. 
New franchise Gujarat Titans wanted to draft the southpaw before the IPL 2022 auction but Kishan preferred to enter the auction instead. He fetched big sum and was bought back by Mumbai Indians.
His IPL consistency opened doors for the Indian team as he was selected for ODI and T20I squads for the Sri Lanka tour in June 2021. In 2022, he slammed a double century against Bangladesh in a dead-rubber, becoming the fourth Indian to achieve the feat.