Salil Arora

Some Lesser Known Facts About Salil Arora

• Salil Arora was born in a traditional Punjabi trader family, as his father was a trader.

• He once visited a mall in 2014, where he played cricket in the nets. He later became interested in cricket and decided to become a professional cricketer.

• He first started playing at Gandhi Ground and later started playing for his school.

  

• Arora scored 654 runs in the 2018 edition of the Cooch Behar Trophy.

• In 2019, he was selected for the India Under-19 team for the Asia Cup.

• He made his first-class debut for Punjab in the 2024–25 Ranji Trophy Group C match against Madhya Pradesh at Mullanpur on 18 October 2024. Arora came in to bat at number seven during his debut first-class innings under pressure conditions.

  

• He scored 101 runs and shared an unbroken 100-run partnership with Sukhwinder Singh, who scored 64 runs.

• He went unsold in the 2025 Indian Premier League (IPL) auction for the base price of Rs 30 lakhs.

• During the 2025 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, Arora played as a middle-order batter and wicketkeeper for Punjab. In the knockout match against Jharkhand, he scored a century off 39 balls at the D.Y. Patil Academy in Pune.

• In the 2026 IPL auction, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) acquired him for Rs 1.5 crore against the base price of Rs 30 lakh.

• After his IPL selection, he said that his father must have felt proud of him. His father passed away around 2020.