vijay shankar Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
vijay shankar is a cricketer(sportsman) from India. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Vijay Shankar
Born
January 26, 1991, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu
Age
32 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Playing Role
Allrounder
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | 12 | 9 | 65 |
Inn | - | 8 | 4 | 53 |
Runs | - | 223 | 101 | 1032 |
Avg | - | 31.86 | 25.25 | 26.46 |
SR | - | 90.65 | 138.36 | 131.13 |
HS | - | 46 | 43 | 63 |
NO | - | 1 | 0 | 14 |
100s | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
50s | - | 0 | 0 | 6 |
4s | - | 20 | 11 | 73 |
6s | - | 4 | 5 | 43 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | - | 12 | 9 | 65 |
Inn | - | 9 | 6 | 22 |
Balls | - | 233 | 126 | 238 |
Runs | - | 210 | 191 | 344 |
Wkt | - | 4 | 5 | 9 |
BBI | - | 15 / 2 | 32 / 2 | 19 / 2 |
BBM | - | 15 / 2 | 32 / 2 | 19 / 2 |
Eco | - | 5.41 | 9.1 | 8.67 |
Avg | - | 52.5 | 38.2 | 38.22 |
5W | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
10W | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Teams he has played for:
- India
- Chennai Super Kings
- Chepauk Super Gillies
- Delhi Daredevils
- Gujarat Titans
- IDream Tiruppur Tamizhans
- India A
- India B
- India C
- India Cements
- Lyca Kovai Kings
- Rest of India
- Salem Spartans
- South Zone
- Sunrisers Hyderabad
- Tamil Nadu
- Tamil Nadu Districts XI
- TNCA President's XI
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Vijay Shankar hails from a family of cricketer, his father and brother Ajay has played lower division cricket for Tamil Nadu. His career has seen several disruptions due to injury, Vijay has carved a niche for himself in Tamil Nadu's middle-order, particularly after the exit of long-serving batsman, Subramanium Badrinath.
He made his debut as a first-class cricketer in 2012 and it took him two years to stamp his authority at the first-class level. In the 2014-15 Ranji season, Vijay came into the selectors reckoning with two Man of the match awards. In the knockouts that year he made scores of 111, 82, 91 and 103. These stellar performances weren't unnoticed as he was selected for the India 'A' team soon.
Genuine all-rounders are a rare commodity in Indian cricket and Vijay Shankar's solidity with the bat and usefulness with the ball earned him a place in the national team for the Nidhas Trophy featuring Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. In his debut tournament, he was named Man of the match award in the league stage for his bowling. But in his maiden series he will only be remembered for his four dot balls against Mustafizur Rehman in the crucial 18th over of the final against Bangladesh.
In the Indian Premier League, he has been a part of the Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad in the past and will represent Delhi Daredevils in the 2018 season of the IPL. Vijay Shankar is an excellent timer of the cricket ball but he lacks the gift of power hitting and that is probably the reason he hasn't got enough opportunities in the IPL so far.
World Cup through the years
Vijay Shankar - the man who has never played World Cup cricket before, and was barely in the reckoning for the national team about a year ago. The pace-bowling all-rounder lost his place in the side after a panic attack in the Nidahas Trophy final in 2018, but an off-field controversy involving Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul offered Shankar a route back into the side, and some decent performances in the middle-order in 2019, and a pressure last-over finish with the ball, earned him the much-debated number 4 spot going into the 2019 World Cup, ahead of a dreadfully out-of-form Rayudu and a controversy-struck Rahul. Shankar, however, was not in the best of form during the IPL, and would certainly hope that the World Cup brings him luck, given that his competitor for the spot is the in-form KL Rahul. The chairman of selectors has mentioned that India will be starting off with Shankar at number 4, and move forward depending on his performance at the No. 4 position.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
A middle-order batsman who can grind attacks and bowl medium-pace, Vijay Shankar established himself as one of the key members of a Tamil Nadu side undergoing transition in 2014-15. Particularly strong off the pads, and with a fondness for driving on the up, Shankar made scores of 111, 82, 91, 103 in the Ranji Trophy knockouts to finish with 577 runs at 57.70 that season, after returning from a groin injury.
He was subsequently rewarded with an India A call up and made an unbeaten half-century on debut against an Australia A attack comprising Gurinder Sandhu, Andrew Fekete, Sean Abbott, and Steve O'Keefe. Shankar also impressed against South Africa A and aimed to become a genuine allrounder, instead of a batsman who can bowl part-time.
As a teenager Shankar had honed his skills on his terrace, which doubled up as a make-shift indoor net, with his father and brother Ajay, who played lower-division cricket in Tamil Nadu. Shankar bowled offspin until he was 20, but switched to medium-pace in a bid to break into a spin-heavy Tamil Nadu side.
At 21, he was handed his first-class debut against Vidarbha in Nagpur, where he scored 63 not out and took two wickets. He had to play understudy to a settled middle order, before his breakthrough season in 2014-15. He had to play understudy at Chennai Super Kings in the IPL as well, getting just a solitary game over three seasons. He was then bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 2016 IPL auction.
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