Andre Siddharth…remember this name because he is the superstar of the future. Yes, Chennai Super Kings has placed a bet on this 18 year old player and now this player has proved his talent. Andre Siddharth scored a brilliant century against Chandigarh in the Ranji Trophy match. Siddharth played an excellent inning of 106 runs. This century of Siddharth is special because he played this innings at a time when his team was in big trouble.

Andre Siddhartha's wonder

After the dismissal of players like Jagadeesan and Vijay Shankar, Chennai team had lost 4 wickets for 126 runs. After this, Andre Siddharth stepped on the crease and while batting openly, he took a toll on the Chandigarh bowlers. Andre Siddharth adopted the strategy of total attack and scored the first century of his first class career. On the basis of this innings of Siddharth, Tamil Nadu's score could cross 300 runs.

18 Year old Andre Siddharth in his first Ranji Campaign:

106(140)**
78(133)
94(163)
55(100)*
41(66)
66(94)*
38(61) #RanjiTrophy pic.twitter.com/LZCBpJGmK0

— Mens Cricket (@MensCricket) January 23, 2025

Siddharth has shown his strength

Andre Siddharth has made his first class debut this season and has scored 478 runs at an average of 95.6. Siddharth has made amazing contribution in every innings. He has scored 4 half-centuries and one century in the last 7 innings. Once he even missed a century against Assam. This player was out after scoring 94 runs. Andre Siddharth also played the Under 19 Asia Cup in December last year where he could not play any big innings but despite this, Chennai Super Kings placed a bet on him in the IPL auction. This player has been sold at the base price of Rs 30 lakh.

Siddharth is the nephew of former Tamil Nadu batsman Sreedharan Sharath. Sharath played 139 first class matches for Tamil Nadu, in which he scored 8700 runs at an average of 51.17. Sharat had 27 first class centuries to his name.