1. Namburi Tagore Tilak Verma is a young player playing for the Triple Indians team in the ongoing IPL.
2. Tilak, who hails from Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, played his Ranji Trophy debut for Hyderabad in 2018-19.
3. 21-year-old Thilak Verma was picked up for Rs 1.7 crore by the trio in the last pre-IPL auction.
4. An all-rounder, he has played 15 IPL matches so far.
5. He has accumulated 481 runs in the matches played so far including yesterday’s match against Bangalore team, in which the highest score was 84 runs yesterday. So far he has scored three more fifties.
6. In December 2019, he was also named in the Indian squad for the 2020 Under-19 World Cup.
8. Tilak, a left-handed batsman, has hit 38 fours and 20 sixes in the IPL matches he has played so far.
9. In yesterday’s match against Bangalore, Tilak Verma hit two sixes and a four in five balls in Harshel Patel’s over.