Priyansh Arya, who came into the limelight by hitting 6 sixes in an over in the inaugural season of the Delhi Premier League, saw the rain of the bat against Chennai Super Kings. He played a stormy innings of 103 runs in 42 balls with the help of 9 sixes and 7 fours. Which helped PBKs reach a huge score of 219 runs for 6 wickets. Priyansh Arya is an unkapped player to score the fastest century in IPL history. Apart from this, it is joint fourth fastest century in IPL. It becomes even more interesting here how Arya started playing for Punjab Kings, while he was about to join the Delhi Capitals team.

Punjab Kings bought for 3.08 crores

Priyansh Arya was bought by Punjab Kings for 3.8 crores in the IPL auction, during that time everyone's eyes were on this player. There was a competition between Delhi Capitals, Punjab Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore to buy Priyansh in the auction of players for IPL 2025. In the end, Punjab Kings won the game. Arya was first ignored by Delhi Capitals.

After this, the confidence of Ricky Ponting gave him a place in Punjab Kings. In this case, former selector of Team India, Deong Gandhi, said that Priyansh does not look very strong, but his timing with the ball is amazing.

Arya handles fast bowlers comfortably. Devang told that he had earlier recommended Priyansh Arya to Delhi Capitals. Gandhi said that the selectors of Delhi felt that Arya did not have runs in the red ball cricket and they did not want to put them at risk. On this, I recommended the direction of Delhi Capitals to Sourav Ganguly.

Ponting Priyansh was excited to take Arya in the team

Ricky Ponting, who was the coach of Delhi Capitals during the IPL 2024 auction, was convinced of the talent of Priyansh and wanted Arya in the DC team, but there was no place for him in the team.

Although Delhi Capitals were interested in this season, Punjab Kings finally bought them for Rs 3.8 crore on the confidence of Ponting. Brad Hadin, assistant coach of Punjab Kings, said that after just one practice session we were convinced that Priyansh has a lot of potential. Recently, Ricky Ponting had said about Arya that I saw his ball-stroke talent. He is a very clean striker. Technically he looks a bit non -traditional, but guarantees that he is going to leave the case in the IPL and Priyansh showed this amazing against CSK.

Priyansh had almost lost his place in under-23 in Delhi

Priyansh Arya suffered a major setback when he had almost lost his place in the Delhi State Under-23 team.

After a few low score, he was almost sent back from the Vijay Hazare Trophy. However, he was supported by senior players like Ishant Sharma and DDCA President Rohan Jaitley. All this happened only a few weeks after his IPL contract was received. Despite this, Arya did not give up. He sought advice from his coach and worked hard to improve his game.

6 sixes came in the headlines in an over

Priyansh Arya first came into the limelight by hitting six sixes in an over.

He hit six sixes in an over in an over, playing for South Delhi Superstar in the inaugural season of Delhi Premier League. South Delhi Superstars scored a record 308 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs against North Delhi Strikers. In this match, Priyansh Arya played a stormy innings of 120 runs off 50 balls. This was the same match in which Priyansh hit spinner Manan Bhardwaj six sixes in an over. Arya hit all sixes in front. Priyansh Arya scored 67.56 in 10 innings in the Delhi League and 608 runs at a strike rate of 198.69. He hit 43 sixes in this entire league.

A century was hit before IPL auction

Priyansh created a sensation by hitting a century before the IPL auction. He scored a century in front of veteran bowlers like Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Piyush Chawla in the 2024-25 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. This century came just before the auction. In the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, Arya was the highest run -scorer for Delhi, he scored 325 runs in 9 innings at a strike rate of 176.63.