IPL 2025, PBKS vs DC: With his edge-of-the-seat batsmanship and six-hitting show, Priyansh Arya dazzles

Following the blackout in Dharamsala due to attacks in Pathankot, roughly 90 km from the hill city, that led to the match’s abandonment, Punjab Kings’ dazzler Priyansh Arya shone brightly with a 34-ball 70, offering joy for the patient fans that lingered despite the rain and unease of the war in the background.

- EMS News Agency, May 14

For much of the evening, the match seemed destined to be washed away by unseasonal rain. But then, rain relented, and at half past eight o'clock, Arya and Prabhsimran Singh strode out to the middle amid gun-toting men in Army fatigues, against Delhi Capitals. Just 12 IPL games old, the 23-year-old has captured the imagination to such an extent that the crowd began to chant his name akin to the Sachin anthem that was the most ubiquitous soundtrack of Indian arenas in the 90s and aughts.More often than not, he disappoints them; that's a risk entailed with his high-risk brand of batting, a bargain he is ready to strike. But there are nights when he makes up for them with edge-of-the-seat batsmanship, where the heartbeat cannot resist its furious pounding. It took just one ball to raise the excitement scale.