The Mumbai all-rounder stands at 6 feet and 1 inch tall, bowls with his right arm at a medium pace, and bats with his left hand. He has the necessary mindset as well as the skill to compete at the top level of international cricket. His comeback to cricket after nearly giving up the sport owing to health and physical challenges is like something out of a movie or a play.
- Biography
Shivam Dube, a batting all-rounder, was born on June 26, 1993, in Mumbai, India. He almost quit Cricket when he was 14 years old, but he came back to play for the Mumbai U-23 squad when he was 19.
- Records –
The record for most sixes in a Ranji Trophy match is five in five balls. In a Twenty20 International, the scores were the second-worst ever for an over (34)
- Career –
On the 17th of December, on the last day of their Ranji Trophy match against Baroda, Dube stole the show by hammering five sixes off of left-arm spinner Swapnil Singh. In March, when competing in the T20 Mumbai League versus Pravin Tambe, he had previously accomplished this feat.
Before he was successful enough to play in the premier levels of domestic cricket, Shivam Dube was a member of the junior team for his state. Dube made his debut for Mumbai’s list A side during the match for the Vijay Hazare Trophy that took place against Rajasthan in Chennai in February of 2017. In January 2016, while competing for Mumbai in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, he made his first appearance in the Twenty20 tournament. In December 2017, Dube made his first-class debut during a Ranji Trophy match between Mumbai and Karnataka. The match was between Mumbai and Karnataka. The first innings of the match were when he took his maiden five-wicket haul in first-class cricket.
- IPL career –
On the last day of their Ranji Trophy matches against Baroda, which took place on December 17, 2018, Shivam Dube captured the attention of the country by hammering five sixes off Swapnil Singh, who was bowling left-arm spin. According to ipl news now, this took place only one day before the auction for the 2018 IPL. The next day, an auction was held in Jaipur, and despite the fact that the uncapped player had no prior experience on the international stage, there was a lot of interest in purchasing him. The astounding sum of Rs 5 crore was what it took for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) to acquire his services, and he is still a part of the team. Despite the fact that he didn’t play much in the 2019 IPL, RCB based their roster in 2020 mainly on Indian players; hence, that year is expected to be his breakthrough season.
- T20 Career –
The match against Bangladesh in which Shivam Dube made his Twenty20 debut was on November 3rd, 2019. He played a significant role in the win that sealed the series.
Although he had only bowled three balls in his Twenty20 International debut in Delhi and two overs in the second match played in Rajkot, India took a chance in Nagpur by picking just five bowlers, including Dube. Dube had only bowled a total of two overs in the previous two matches.
At a pivotal point in the series, at Nagpur, Dube and Deepak Chahar collaborated to bring about a spectacular collapse on the side of Bangladesh. This collapse caused Bangladesh to lose the match. As a result of Dube allowing 23 runs to score in his first two overs, Bangladesh needed 65 runs off of 42 balls with seven wickets remaining as Mohammad Naim and Mushfiqur Rahim were in the middle.
When Dube began his new stint, the first ball he threw was a slower cutter that tricked Mushfiqur into chopping on for a duck. This resulted in Dube getting his first wicket of the match. The next over after that, he knocked Naim out with an off-stump yorker, which resulted in 81 runs being scored. Deepak Chahar established a new standard for success when he went six for seven in a single game.
The final score was 30 runs for India’s victory, while Dube’s total count was 3 wickets for 30 runs scored. In just six out of twenty T20 matches, he batted for the whole four overs that were assigned to him.
The feeling of success, on the other hand, started to fade when India traveled to New Zealand at the beginning of the year. In the fifth Twenty20 international match of the series, Ross Taylor and Tim Seifert scored 34 runs off Shivam Dube in the tenth over of the second innings. The over that was bowled by Dube, in which he allowed 34 runs to be scored, is now the second most expensive over in the history of the format, after the over that was bowled by Stuart Broad, which allowed 36 runs to be scored.
- ODI career –
On December 15, 2019, Shivam Dube competed in his one and only One Day International (ODI) match, which was contested against West Indies. In his first game, Dube was not successful, as he was only able to score 9 runs before being run out by Keemo Paul. The all-rounder from Mumbai was bowled at for 68 runs in 7.5 overs, which indicates that he did not do very well with the ball.
- Family –
Shivam Dube was born on June 26, 1993, and he stopped playing cricket altogether between the ages of 13 and 17, which makes his sudden ascent to popularity all the more astonishing. Shivam Dube was born on June 26. Shivam’s father, Rajesh Dube, had a career as a wrestler in the past; however, once he saw the potential in his son at a young age, he made the decision to devote the rest of his life to training Shivam. At the age of five, Shivam first picked up the sport of cricket. They spent a lot of time together practicing on the artificial turf field that had been constructed behind their house.
