karn sharma Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
karn sharma is a cricketer(sportsman) from India. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Karn Vinod Sharma
Born
October 23, 1987, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
Age
36 years old
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Legbreak Googly
Playing Role
Bowler
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 1 | 2 | 1 | 75 |
Inn | 2 | - | - | 37 |
Runs | 8 | - | - | 320 |
Avg | 8.0 | - | - | 13.91 |
SR | 28.57 | - | - | 114.7 |
HS | 4 | - | - | 39 |
NO | 1 | - | - | 14 |
100s | 0 | - | - | 0 |
50s | 0 | - | - | 0 |
4s | 0 | - | - | 18 |
6s | 0 | - | - | 14 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 1 | 2 | 1 | 75 |
Inn | 2 | 2 | 1 | 73 |
Balls | 294 | 114 | 24 | 1351 |
Runs | 238 | 125 | 28 | 1833 |
Wkt | 4 | 0 | 1 | 69 |
BBI | 95 / 2 | 61 / 0 | 28 / 1 | 16 / 1 |
BBM | 238 / 4 | 61 / 0 | 28 / 1 | 16 / 1 |
Eco | 4.86 | 6.58 | 7.0 | 8.14 |
Avg | 59.5 | 0.0 | 28.0 | 26.57 |
5W | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
10W | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Teams he has played for:
- India
- Central Zone
- Chennai Super Kings
- India A
- India B
- India Blue
- India Green
- India Red
- Indian Board President's XI
- Mumbai Indians
- Railways
- Royal Challengers Bangalore
- Sunrisers Hyderabad
- Uttar Pradesh Under-14s
- Vidarbha
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
A wrist spinner in the conventional mould, Karn's bonus asset was his clean hitting down the order, producing several handy cameos for the teams that he has featured for. In fact, Karn was actually a specialist batsman when he started out in First-class cricket back in 2007, even racking up a century on debut. However, as time passed, he realized that his major skills were in the bowling department and he soon switched roles as a cricketer. Having had a basic foundation as a batsman has helped him in being a prominent dasher late in the batting order.
Karn has also improved drastically in the domestic circuit. Despite possessing the ideal skills of a leg spinner, there seemed to be temperament issues as far as the longer format is concerned. Some even felt that he was too raw for red-ball cricket during the 2014 season. That might be true as he has definitely matured in the recent past. With wrist spin ruling the roost in international cricket and his utility package in white-ball cricket, Karn would be in the reckoning if he can grab his chances.
IPL through the years
Over the years, Karn has been a regular in the IPL and even has achieved a rare feat of being part of successive title-winning teams - Hyderabad in 2016 and Mumbai in 2017. He was picked up by the newly formed Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2013, for whom he picked 11 wickets in his first season. He was the second highest-wicket taker in 2014 with 15 wickets and had a decent run in 2015, before a poor 2016.
Mumbai Indians roped him in for the 2017 season and recorded 13 wickets but was later released into the auctions pool. CSK bagged him in want of an Indian leg-spinner but he did not find a regular place in the side. Although Karn had the ability with the bat, he could not quite showcase his talent in his IPL journey.
By Hariprasad Sadanandan
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
After Praveen Kumar and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, legspinner Karn Sharma became the third cricketer to hit the headlines from the small western Uttar Pradesh town of Meerut when he bagged a Rs 3.75 crore from Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 2014 IPL auction. It was the highest amount earned by a domestic uncapped player in the auction, and was reward for a solid season with Sunrisers in 2013, when he grabbed 11 wickets in 13 matches at an economy rate of 6.60. He formed a potent combination with India legspinner Amit Mishra as Sunrisers beat expectations to reach the semi-finals in their first season.
He has been around in the domestic circuit since 2007 representing Railways, but it was only during the 2012-13 season that he really made heads turn. He won the BCCI award for the Best Under-25 cricketer after taking 21 wickets at 19.04 in three Ranji matches that season. It included an eight-wicket innings haul against defending champions Rajasthan, which remains a highlight of his first-class career.
He repeated his solid IPL showing in 2014, with 15 wickets at 25.06, before showing a glimpse of his batting skills against South Africa A when India A toured Australia - given limited opportunities there, he got India A across the line in a nail-biting chase with 39 off 16 at No. 9. Not long after, he was rewarded with an India call-up, making the limited-overs squad for the tour to England and debuting for the country in a T20 international. Later in the year, after consistently claiming wickets against touring teams for India A, he got a maiden Test call-up: for the tour to Australia. ESPNcricinfo staff