Rewa Jaguar’s Akshat Raghuwanshi scored a scintillating 42 runs off 14 balls on the MPL 2026 6th match against Bundelkhund Bulls at the Holkar Stadium on Saturday. His explosive strike rate of 300 included four fours and four sixes, and earned him the Maximum Sixes and Maximum Fours awards of the match.
Winning the toss, Rewa Jaguars opted to bowl first. Ramveer Gujar wreaked havoc as he dismantled Harsh Gawali in the second ball and then the captain Abhishek Pathak in his next over of the spell. Bundelkhund Bulls had no answer to the frequent interval of wickets falling, getting bundled at only 74 in 15.2 overs. Ramveer Gujjar, Sagar Solanki and Rohit Rajawat gave an excellent performance with the ball. Coming down to bat, the Jaguars made the chase look like a cakewalk as Akshat Raghuwanshi unleashed the beast, taking on Omkar Nath in the second over, hitting him for 28 runs. He was unfortunately dismissed by Shivang Kumar, but Prithviraj Singh Tomar continued from there, giving Rewa their first victory of the season by 9 wickets. Rewa Jaguars are currently at the top of the MPL 2026 table with the highest NRR.
Who is Akshat Raghuwanshi?
Akshat Raghuwanshi is an Indian cricketer who plays as a middle-order batter and occasional off-break bowler for Madhya Pradesh in the domestic circuit. In his first-class debut in February 2022 against Meghalaya, he scored a century, and Madhya Pradesh won the Ranji title that season.
He turned eyeballs during the 2025 Madhya Pradesh T20 League, where he smashed 239 runs in just 4 innings at a blistering strike rate of 177.04, including a 56-ball 115. This made him a name in the cricket circuit, as he entered the 2026 IPL auction with just a base price of 30 lakhs INR, but a bidding war ultimately erupted, Lucknow Super Giants acquiring him for a whopping 2.2 Crore INR.
Akshat is yet to get a chance to show his batting prowess in the IPL.
