Siddhesh Lad


Siddhesh Dinesh Lad is a cricketer who plays for Mumbai in Indian domestic cricket. He is a right-hand batsman and occasional right arm off break bowler.
Lad was the captain of the Western Wolves team in the Toyota University Cricket Championship. His father, Dinesh LAD, is the coach of Indian international batsman Rohit Sharma. In the 2015 Indian Premier League, he was selected to play for the Mumbai Indians. In January 2018, he was bought by the Mumbai Indians in the 2018 IPL auction. On April 10th 2019, he finally made IPL debut for Mumbai Indians against Kings XI Punjab in 2019 Indian Premier League replacing the injured Rohit Sharma. He hit a six off the first ball he faced in his IPL career scoring 15 runs in the match before being dismissed. In November 2019 Kolkata Knight Riders have included him for IPL 2020
He was the leading run-scorer for Mumbai in the 2017–18 Ranji Trophy, with 652 runs in seven matches.
In August 2018, Lad was released from his squad in the Quadrangular Series and added to India Red's team for the second match of the 2018–19 Duleep Trophy. In the match, he scored a half-century in each innings, and was named the man of the match, as India Red progressed to the final.
In November 2018, he scored his 3,000th run in first-class cricket, batting for Mumbai against Railways in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy. He was the leading run-scorer for Mumbai in the tournament, with 652 runs in seven matches.
In August 2019, he was named in the India Green team's squad for the 2019–20 Duleep Trophy.