The opening match of IPL 2025 will begin on March 22. During IPL 2025 season people will highlight Virat Kohli’s former cricket friend who played with him in the Under-19 World Cup finals and placed first in scoring. Azad Maidan Stadium serves as his inaugural stop in an upcoming season as an official. The IPL 2025 season will feature Tanmay Srivastava in his duty as an umpire.
Assistant official Tanmay Srivastava will make history by taking up the role of umpiring. After playing in the IPL he became the first person who advanced to the role of an IPL umpire. Punjab team selected him to play during the IPL seasons of 2007-2008 and 2009. During the seven IPL matches he appeared, he failed to produce a successful performance. Throughout IPL matches he has scored a total of 8 runs in the competition.
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Relationship with Virat
Seventeen years ago Tanmay shared a strong bond with Virat Kohli when both players led Indian cricket teams at the Under-19 World Cup. Virat Kohli led India to an Under-19 World Cup victory when he served as the team captain. Ravindra Jadeja served as one of the prominent players from that same team alongside Manish Pandey. Even though Tanmay did not get an international cricket opportunity his team members grew to become major cricket stars.
How was his career?
The domestic cricket sector saw significant contributions from Tanmay despite his lack of participation at international cricket level. During the Under-19 World Cup Tanmay held the position of leading run-scorer for his team. Through his first-class century matches he proved himself with a total of 4918 runs including 10 centuries. His List A career consisted of 44 matches where he maintained 1728 runs. A total of 34 T20 matches proved suitable for Tanmay to accumulate 649 runs throughout his career.
