It is said, like father, like son. But, in this story of ours, the son seems to be writing his own story instead of following in the footsteps of his father. Father is a well-known name of Bollywood. Has done films with veteran actors like Aamir Khan, Sanjay Dutt. But, like his father, the son is not addicted to films but to cricket. He is scoring lots of runs on the cricket pitch. Last year, he also made his name among the top 3 batsmen in the world in terms of most runs in first class cricket. Here we are talking about Agni Chopra, the cricketer son of director Vidhu Vinod Chopra, who has given famous films like Munnabhai MBBS, 3 Indians and 12th Fail, who is famous for his batting.

Agni Chopra among top-3 batsmen of the world

Agni Chopra plays for Mizoram in first class cricket. While playing for this team, in the year 2024, he scored so many runs in first class cricket that his name came in the list of top-3 batsmen along with Joe Root. The batsman in the world who scored the most runs in first class cricket in 2024 was England's Joe Root. He scored 1998 runs in 39 innings of 22 matches at an average of 55.50 with 8 centuries. After Root, David Bedingham was second, who scored 1918 runs with 7 centuries at an average of 53.27. Agni Chopra stood third in this list of batsmen from all over the world.

Agni Chopra has no match in century and batting average.

The special thing about Agni Chopra was that his batting average and century were better and more than both the top 2 batsmen. In the year 2024, Agni has scored runs at an average of 94.94 in first class cricket. At the same time, maximum 9 centuries were seen coming from his bat. Agni Chopra has scored a total of 1804 runs for Mizoram in 20 innings of 11 matches.

Agni remained number one from India

Agni Chopra, who was ranked third in the world, became India's number one batsman with the most runs in first class cricket in the year 2024. After him, Cheteshwar Pujara has scored the most runs for India. A total of 4 batsmen from India were included in the top 10, out of which 2 more were Yashasvi Jaiswal and Karun Nair.