Manpreet Juneja (born 12 September 1990) is an Indian

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er who plays for

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in domestic cricket. He is a right-handed middle-order

batsman In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since September 2021, officially referred to as a batter (historically, the ...

. Juneja scored an unbeaten 201 on his first-class debut against Tamil Nadu in December 2011, becoming only the fourth Indian to score a double-century on first-class debut.

T. A. Sekhar Thirumalai Ananthanpillai Sekar ((; born 28 March 1956, in Madras) was a fast bowler who represented India in Test cricket and One Day Internationals. Sekar was one of the fastest bowlers in India in the early eighties. His two Test matches ...

, the mentor of

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franchise

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, was said to have been tracking Juneja even before his debut and drafted him into the Daredevils squad in January 2012. Juneja scored 796 runs from 8 matches at an average of 66.33 in the

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. He had three centuries and three fifties to his name in the season. In 2013 he along with Abdulahad Malek set the highest ever 4th wicket partnership in any forms of T20 cricket(202*) Juneja made his IPL debut in 2013 (

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) against

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. He was bought by

Sunrisers Hyderabad Sunrisers Hyderabad (stylised as SunRisers Hyderabad, SRH) are a franchise cricket team based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, that plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). The franchise is owned by Kalanithi Maran of the SUN Group and was ...

at the 2014 IPL auction. He was part of the

cricket team that won the

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in 2016-17 where he scored half centuries in both innings. Manpreet with skipper

Parthiv Patel Parthiv Ajay Patel (born 9 March 1985) is a former Indian professional cricketer, wicketkeeper-batsman, and was a member of the Indian national cricket team. He is a left-handed batsman and played for Gujarat in domestic cricket. Having lost a f ...

helped Gujarat beat defending champions Mumbai in the final in Indore. Gujarat had never reached the finals nor won a Ranji Trophy in over 66 years before that.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Juneja, Manprit 1990 births Living people Indian cricketers Cricketers from Ahmedabad Delhi Capitals cricketers West Zone cricketers Sunrisers Hyderabad cricketers