Yuvraj Singh took a dig at Abhishek Sharma on his birthday, and gave this advice on his birthday!
Abhishek Sharma is famous for his fast innings and hitting sixes. He showed a glimpse of this in IPL itself. In the last season of IPL, while playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad, he hit 46 sixes. After this, when he stepped into the Indian team, he created a sensation with his stormy century. On the Zimbabwe tour, he scored a century in just 46 balls. He hit 8 sixes in this inning. Abhishek Sharma turned 23 on 4 September this year. On Abhishek's birthday, his mentor and India's legendary cricketer Yuvraj Singh wished him in a very unique way. Yuvraj has taunted him for focusing only on hitting sixes on his birthday.
Abhishek Sharma is famous for his fast innings and hitting sixes. He showed a glimpse of this in IPL itself. In the last season of IPL, while playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad, he hit 46 sixes. After this, when he stepped into the Indian team, he created a sensation with his stormy century. On the Zimbabwe tour, he scored a century in just 46 balls. He hit 8 sixes in this inning. Abhishek Sharma turned 23 on 4 September this year. On Abhishek's birthday, his mentor and India's legendary cricketer Yuvraj Singh wished him in a very unique way. Yuvraj has taunted him for focusing only on hitting sixes on his birthday.
Abhishek Sharma made his IPL debut with the Delhi team in 2018. He got a chance to play only 3 matches this season. The very next year, Kavya Maran included him in her team Sunrisers Hyderabad. She saw potential in Abhishek then. That's why Kavya kept retaining him continuously. At the same time, in 2022, the salary was also increased from 55 lakhs to 6.5 crores. During this time, Abhishek Sharma worked a lot on batting along with Brian Lara. He used to train alone with Lara. Apart from Lara, Abhishek Sharma used to practice under the supervision of Yuvraj. Due to this, his batting also improved and today he has become famous as an aggressive batsman. He has mentioned this in many interviews.
Abhishek Sharma scored a century in his second T20I match. With this, he achieved the feat of scoring a T20I century in the least number of innings from India. Earlier this record was in the name of Deepak Hooda. He achieved the feat of scoring a century in his third T20I innings. Apart from this, Abhishek Sharma is the third batsman in the world who has scored a century in his second T20I innings.