Just days before the squad selection of the Indian side for the 2025 season of the Asia Cup 2025, every player of the Blue Brigade is trying their best to put a strong case to get selected for the national side. Rinku Singh, the lower-order batter, is the same as he featured during the opening game of the UP T20 League encounter. 

The Meerut Mavericks captain picked up the wicket on the very first ball of the over when he clean bowled the captain of the Kanpur Superstars, Adarsh Singh, as the all-rounder was pumped up in picking up the wicket. The batter made room and looked to smash the ball over the cover region, but he ended up watching the ball thrashing into the stumps.

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Kanpur Superstars won the toss and decided to bowl first during the opening fixture at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Vihari Bajpayee Stadium in Lucknow. It was the Mavericks batter, Madhav Kaushik, smashing an unbeaten knock of 95 runs in just 31 balls. His knock was composed of 10 boundaries and seven sixes.

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Rituraj Sharma remained unbeaten on 60 runs in 36 balls with the help of four boundaries and as many sixes. The opening wicket-keeper batter, Akshay Dubey, drilled 44 runs in 26 balls. This helped the Mavericks put 225/2 in their allotted 20 overs as Bobby Yadav and Shubman Yadav picked up one wicket apiece.

THE AGGRESSION OF RINKU SINGH. pic.twitter.com/qylyGgRssK

— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) August 18, 2025

Chasing the target of 226 runs for victory, Kanpur never got off to a flying start, as they kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Captain Sameer Rizvi was the leading run-getter with 45 runs in 34 balls, while Priyanshu Gautam notched up 34 runs in 20 balls to see the Mavericks earn a victory by 86 runs.

The six-team UP T20 league event has provided several key players to the Indian cricket team. The competition is going to start on August 17 and will run until September 06, featuring the round-robin format along with the knockouts. The top four sides will advance into the semi-finals, while the winners of these games will face each other in the final at the Ekhana Stadium in Lucknow.