Prafulla Hinge’s popularity increased overnight, followers increased 30 times in a few hours, became an Instagram star

Praful Hinge created history in his debut match against Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2026. He has become the first bowler to take 3 wickets in the first over. He dismissed Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel and Luan de Pretorius for a duck. Since then, the name of this fast bowler has remained in the headlines and Prafulla’s name is being discussed in the circles of cricket. After his match-winning performance, Prafulla’s followers are increasing rapidly on social media.

Praful Hinge’s fan following increased overnight

In the match played between SRH VS RR, Prafulla Hinge was awarded the Player of the Match award for his wicket-taking bowling. Due to his performance, Prafulla has remained in the headlines and his followers on Instagram are increasing every moment.

A video is becoming increasingly viral on social media, in which you can see that when Prafulla performed, his followers were only 18-19 thousand, but the followers kept increasing every minute. Now Prafulla has 340K followers on Instagram. Yes, within about 16-17 hours he has become the hero of Instagram and the number of followers is continuously increasing. Let us tell you, Prafulla has shared 98 posts on Instagram and he follows 396 users.

Who is Prafulla Hinge?

Prafulla Hinge was born on 18 January 2002 in Nagpur. He plays for Vidarbha cricket team in domestic cricket. Till now he has played 10 matches in first class cricket, in which he has taken 27 wickets at an average of 26.66. At the same time, he has taken 6 wickets in List A cricket, in which 5 wickets were taken. 24-year-old Hinge was playing his second T20 match in senior cricket, in which he created history by creating a stir.

This is how the IPL turns a normal person into a star overnight. When Praful hinge took his first wicket, he had only around 5/6k followers. But within just 10 minutes, it crossed 25K and is still rising it might reach 500K by tomorrow.🫡 pic.twitter.com/Ls0k563qOH

— 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐢𝐢⁴⁵ (@rushiii_12) April 13, 2026

Prafulla Hinge created history

In this match, Ishan Kishan gave the first over of Rajasthan Royals’ innings to Prafulla Hinge. On the very second ball of Rajasthan Royals’ innings, Prafulla Hinge showed Vaibhav Suryavanshi the way to the pavilion. After this, on the fourth ball, Dhruv showed Jurel the way to the pavilion. After this, Luan-Dre Pretorius was made his victim on the last ball of this over. These three players were dismissed by Prafulla Hinge on zero.

𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺, 𝗳𝘁. &

Announcing their arrival to the big stage in style 🧡

Turning years of grind into a record-breaking night 🙌

🎥 Hear from the duo on an unforgettable debut & the backing of Varun Aaron…

— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 14, 2026

With this, 24 year old Prafulla Hinge has created history in IPL. He has become the first player to take 3 wickets in the first over in IPL. This feat has been seen after 1191 matches of IPL, when a player has taken 3 wickets in the first over. He gave away 34 runs in his 4 over spell and took 4 wickets. Prafulla was chosen player of the match for this brilliant performance.

Also read: Prafulla Hinge had predicted to create history in the debut match a year ago, said – ‘When I will play my first match…’