Manpreet Juneja (born 12 September 1990) is an Indian cricketer[1] who plays for Gujarat in domestic cricket.[2] He is a right-handed middle-order batsman. Juneja scored an unbeaten 201 on his first-class debut against Tamil Nadu in December 2011, becoming only the fourth Indian to score a double-century on first-class debut.[3]T. A. Sekhar, the mentor of IPL franchise Delhi Daredevils, was said to have been tracking Juneja even before his debut and drafted him into the Daredevils squad in January 2012.[4]
Juneja scored 796 runs from 8 matches at an average of 66.33 in the 2012–13 Ranji Trophy. He had three centuries and three fifties to his name in the season.[5]
In 2013, he along with Abdulahad Malek set the highest ever 4th wicket partnership in any forms of T20 cricket (202*).[6][7][8]
He was part of the Gujarat cricket team that won the Ranji Trophy in 2016-17 where he scored half-centuries [9] in both innings. Manpreet with skipper Parthiv Patel helped Gujarat beat defending champions Mumbai in the final in Indore. Gujarat had never reached the finals nor won a Ranji Trophy in over 66 years before that.[10]
