Vijay Shankar Biography 
Vijay Shankar is an Indian cricketer and sports person from Tamil Nadu. He has played T20 matches for national team. He is a right handed batsman and medium pace bowler, and plays as an all-rounder for his team. He is best known for his association with IPL T20 series, and has played one match for the Chennai Super Kings in 2014 and four for Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2017. In 2018 he played for Delhi Daredevils, and for 2019 he has been signed by Sunrisers Hyderabad. In domestic cricket he plays for Tamil Nadu cricket team. He made his international cricket debut in 2018, and played his first match 6 March 2018 v Sri Lanka, followed by a match on 18 March 2018 v Bangladesh.
Vijay Shankar was born in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu in 1991. Vijay comes from a cricket-loving family. His father, H.Shankar is a former club cricketer and his brother plays league cricket. The siblings got good support from their father who constructed a net-practice facility at the terrace of their two-storey house in Madipakkam, a suburb of Chennai. Vijay gained recognition as an all-rounder playing in domestic cricket. He bats in the middle order and bowls right-arm medium-pace. He started off as an off-spinner before he switched to seam bowling.
He made his Ranji Trophy debut in 2012-13, playing three games and scoring an unbeaten century. 2014-15 was his major season, when he scored a total of 577 runs in seven matches, scoring two hundreds and three fifties. He also picked up 8 wickets. Thus he was called for India A squad and he played as an emerging all-rounder.
Vijay Shankar was playing a Ranji Trophy match for Tamil Nadu in Indore when he got his entry to national team for T20 series, as a replacement to Bhuvaneshwar in November 2017. Yet he had to wait a little more to play his first international cricket match. In February 2018, he was named in India's Twenty20 International squad for the 2018 Nidahas Trophy. He made his T20I debut for India against Sri Lanka in the 2018 Nidahas Trophy on 6 March 2018. He took his first wicket in his second match, played against Sri Lanka, dismissing Mushfiqur Rahim. He took two wickets for 32 runs and was declared Man of Match, and his team won the match too.
Published: November 29, 2018
Updated: November 29, 2018
