Former India player Aakash Chopra has praised Priyansh Arya for scoring a match-winning hundred in the Punjab Kings’ (PBKS) IPL 2025 match against the Chennai Super Kings (CSK). He stated that the youngster was smashing the CSK bowlers all around the park with ease. Arya smashed 103 runs off 42 deliveries as PBKS set CSK a 220-run target, and then they restricted CSK to 201/5 to register an 18-run win.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “24-year-old Priyansh Arya, superstar Priyansh Arya, uncapped Indian Priyansh Arya, a Priyansh Arya who is the fourth-fastest to an IPL century, and the second-fastest Indian also to a century. It’s the first time ever in the IPL where one guy in the top six has scored a century and all others had single-digit scores. Everyone else made a telephone number, and he scored a hundred.”
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“Punjab are playing like Hyderabad. It seemed like harakiri at the start. Priyansh was hitting sixes, but wickets were falling at the other end. Everyone was getting out for single digits, but this guy was not stopping. A storm had come at one end, and this guy was going at a different Tsunami,” he added.
However, Aakash Chopra also stated that Priyansh Arya took all the Chennai Super Kings bowlers to the cleaners with his stunning shots.
“His playing style is excellent. He is technically very good. It’s not easy to hit sixes over point, but he hit them at the start. He hooked the short balls and hit fours against (Matheesha) Pathirana. Then, whether it was Ravichandran Ashwin or Ravindra Jadeja, he hit them for sixes, and he was absolutely brilliant. In my opinion, you will hear his name many times. Well done, Punjab. He went unsold last year and was sold for ₹3.80 crore this year. Opening with two uncapped players is a huge thing. They have done that, and Priyansh is here to stay,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
