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INTRODUCTION
Rinku Khanchand Singh was barn 12th October year 1997. Rinku Singh’s father Khanchandra Singh was warked as a LPG distribution company & his mother Vina Devi was a house wife. Rinku Sighs birth place was Aligarh, uttar pradesh, India. Rinku Singh of grew up in a pural village called Gopiganj, Bhadohi, Uttar Pradesh. Rinku Singh was the third among five Siblings, the for financial conditions were poor. During his early years, singh family lived in a two room quater near aligarh stadium in aligarh. This accommodation was provided by his fathers employment.
Rinku Singh was a talented young lad from the beginning, despite of being coming from a poor family! he never left his intrest & passion of cricket, and struggled a lot.Rinku Singh represented Uttar Pradesh at the under-16, Under-19 and Under-23 levels and central Zone at the Under-19 level, He made his List A cricket debut for Uttar Pradesh in march 2014 at the age of 16 and top- Scored with 83 in that match. He made his frist class debut for uttar Pradesh in the year of 2016-17 Raujhi Trophy on 5th November 2016.
He was the leading run scorer for Uttar pradesh in the group stages of the year 2018-2019 Ranji Trophy, with 803Runs in nine matches. He finished the tournament with 953 Runs in ten matches.
Indian Permier League ( IPL)
In February 2017 , Rinku Singh was bought by the mighty Kings XI Punjab for the Indian premier League (IPL) 2017 at a base price of rs.10 lakhs.
But after that year Rinku Singh was acquired by kolkatta knight Riders (KKR) for the Indian permier league 2018 . For rs.80 Lakhs. Even though the first season of IPL didn’t turn out to be grate for him, his potential was considered and he was retained by Kolkatta knight Riders for the Indian premier League 2019 as well. After which Rinku Singh was retained again for total rupee of 55lakhs in 2022 & 2023 .
This makes his Indian premier League ( IPL) salary to rs. 4.40 Cr, from IPL 2017 to 2023.
Rinku Singh was not ruled out of the 2021 Indian Premire league due to knee injury and he was later replaced by Gurheerat Singh Mawn.” of 2022. In February of 2022 he was bought by the kokatta knight Riders (KKR) in the auction of the 2022 Indian Premiere leaque tournament. In this yeares tournament he got his frist man of the match award with a cheque of one lakh rupee of 42 runs in 32 balls he faced with a strick rate of 182.61 against Rajasthan Royals.
On 9th April of 2023 , Rinku Singh achieved a record brakeing feat in a IPL match against Gujrat Titans, smashing 5 sixed in final over to finish successfully chase down 29 runs – the highest ever chase in the last over in Indian Premier League’s tournament history.
DOMESTIC
He stitched the loopholes of his batting with Abhishek Nayar at the KKR academy during the off seasons. The results were pretty visiby in his 2028-2019 Domestic Ranjhi Trophy tournament outing for uttar pradesh, where he ended up being the third highestbrun scorer ( 953 runs in 10 innings) of the tournament with four hundreds.
( 163*, 149,149 & a 150)
STRUGGLE
Rinku Singh, the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) batsman, recently revealed his hardships due to a financial crunch, including leaving cricket for a sweeper’s job. However, he made a remarkable comeback and is now known as one of the best finishers in the IPL.His brother Sonu Singh spoke to Aaj Tak about their struggles. “We lived in a room of a gas godown for 35 years in Aligarh. There are five brothers and one sister in the family,” he said.
There could be two possible reasons behind this. Firstly, once the selectors decided to pick Jaiswal, Shubhman Gill and Ishan Kishan as the openers, there was no space for a fourth opener in the squad. The second reason is quite similar to that of Rinku.
On 30 May 2019, Singh was given a three-month suspension by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) after he took part in the Ramadan T20 Tournament in Abu Dhabi without seeking prior permission to play