Vinay Kumar

Personal information
Full name	Ranganath Vinay Kumar
Born	(1984-02-12) 12 February 1984 (age 28) Davangere, Karnataka, India
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm medium
International information
National side	India
Only Test (cap 274)	13 January 2012 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 183)	28 May 2010 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI	5 February 2012 v Australia
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2004/05–	Karnataka
2008-2010, 2012-	Royal Challengers Bangalore (IPL)
2011	Kochi Tuskers Kerala (IPL)
Career statistics
Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	1	19	67	67
Runs scored	11	36	1,240	517
Batting average	5.50	12.00	17.22	19.88
100s/50s	0/0	–/–	0/5	–/2
Top score	6	18	57	82
Balls bowled	78	647	12,343	3,223
Wickets	1	25	242	102
Bowling average	73.00	31.68	24.49	25.49
5 wickets in innings	0	–	11	0
10 wickets in match	0	–	2	0
Best bowling	1/73	4/30	8/32	4/24
Catches/stumpings	0/–	2/–	25/–	16/–
Source: Cricinfo, 5 February 2012

Ranganath Vinay Kumar  pronunciation (help·info) (Kannada: ವಿನಯ್ ಕುಮಾರ್) (born 12 February 1984) is an Indian cricket player who has played for India at Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 levels. He is a right-arm medium fast bowler who plays domesticy cricket for Karnataka and also in the Indian Premier League for the Bangalore Royal Challengers (2008-2010) and the Kochi Tuskers Kerala in 2011. He will return to play for the Royal Challengers in the 2012 IPL after the franchise picked him up for US$1 million.

Personal life[link]

Vinay Kumar was born in Davangere, Karnataka, on 12 February 1984.^[1] His father was an auto rickshaw driver.^[2] He attended a government school in Davangere before graduating from the A.R.G. Arts and Commerce College with a Bachelor of Commerce degree.^[3]

Early career (2004–2010)[link]

Vinay Kumar broke into Karnataka's Ranji Trophy team in the 2004–05 season. He was the Ranji Trophy's second-highest wicket-taker in the 2007-08 season, with 40 at an average of 18.52.^[4][5] He was signed by the Royal Challengers Bangalore for the inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2008.^[4]

He was the highest wicket taker in the 2009-2010 Domestic Season (Ranji and Duleep Trophy). In the 2010 IPL, he took 16 wickets, the highest among all pace bowlers in the tournament,^[6][7] leading to his selection to play for India in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 in the West Indies.^[4] He played in one match in the tournament, taking two wickets for 30 runs from four overs in India's five-wicket defeat to Sri Lanka.^[8][9]

International career (2010–present)[link]

In May 2010, after India's elimination from the ICC World Twenty20, Vinay Kumar made his ODI debut against Zimbabwe in Harare, taking 2/51 off eight overs in a six-wicket defeat.^[10] He injured his knee before India's next fixture, and was replaced in their squad by Abhimanyu Mithun.^[11] Vinay Kumar returned to the Indian team in October 2010,^[12] playing in one ODI of India's three-match series against Australia and taking 0/71 off nine overs.^[13]

In 2011, Vinay Kumar joined the Kochi Tuskers Kerala for the franchise's first (and as it turned out, only) season in the IPL, his services having been bought for US$475,000 in the pre-season auction.^[14] He also returned to the Indian team, being selected in the limited overs squads for tours of the West Indies and England.^[15] He played in the dead rubber fifth match of the ODI series against the West Indies, taking one for 46 from nine overs.^[16] He then played in three ODIs in England, taking two wickets. Later in 2011 he played in four ODIs in India against each of England and the West Indies.^[17] In December, at the age of 27, he was called into India's Test squad for the first time as a replacement for the injured Varun Aaron for the 2011–12 tour of Australia.^[18] He made his Test debut in the third of the four-match series in Perth. His opportunity came as India chose to take four pace bowlers into the match, which caused him to be selected ahead of spinner R Ashwin.^[19] He took one wicket (that of Michael Hussey) for 73 runs in Australia's first and only innings of the match.^[20] He was left out of India's team for the fourth and final Test of the series in Adelaide, Ashwin returning to the team in his place.^[21]He also played in the T20 match between Australia and India on 3 February 2012.

Playing style[link]

Cricketing website ESPNcricinfo compares Vinay Kumar's style of bowling to that of Venkatesh Prasad, saying that he relies "more on outswingers, legcutters and accuracy, than on outright pace".^[22] His lack of pace in his Test debut against Australia in January 2012—bowling at 120 kilometres per hour in his opening spell—was criticised by former Pakistan fast bowler Wasim Akram as "disappointing".^[23] On the other hand, The Indian Express noted about Vinay Kumar's performances in his breakthrough 2010 IPL season: "He doesn’t bowl too fast nor too slow, and he doesn’t have threatening in-swingers or the deliveries that shape away from right-handers. But if there is one art that Vinay Kumar has mastered, it is the all-important one of picking up wickets."^[24]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Vinay Kumar Cricket Profile at Cricinfo
• Vinay Kumar living upto Dhoni's expectations?

v t e India squad – 2010 ICC World Twenty20 3 Harbhajan 7 Dhoni(c) 45 Rohit 12 Yuvraj 26 Jadeja 28 Yusuf 5 Gambhir 24 Chawla 08 Vijay 64 Nehra 48 Raina 46 Yadav 23 Vinay 34 Zaheer 1 Karthik 8 Praveen Coach: Kirsten Praveen Kumar was injured and replaced by Umesh Yadav halfway through the tournament.

Abhimanyu Mithun (Kannada: ಅಭಿಮನ್ಯು ಮಿಥುನ್) (born 25 October 1989) is an Indian international cricketer. In first class cricket, he plays for Karnataka. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, Mithun was called up to the India squad for the first Test against South Africa in 2009–10, only ten weeks after making his first-class debut. He has also played in the IPL for Royal Challengers Bangalore. He made his debut in One Day Internationals in the third and final one day match against South Africa in the 2010 season. His Test debut was against Sri Lanka on 18 July 2010, at Galle, in which he claimed four wickets. He batted at No. 11 in the first innings, but after looking more solid than his fellow bowlers, he was promoted to No. 9 in the second innings and scored 25. He proved that he certainly has some potential with the bat & can become a seam bowling all-rounder in future.

Career[link]

As a teenager, Mithun was a discus thrower, competing at state-level. Despite training at his father's gym throughout his teens, he failed to progress with his discus throwing, and a friend suggested that he join a cricket camp. Until the age of 17, he hadn't bowled with a leather ball.^[1] Royal Challengers Bangalore's head coach Ray Jennings eulogised about him, describing him as an "express bowler", but he had a quiet IPL.^[2] His first-class debut reinvigorated the potential; he claimed six wickets in the first innings, followed by five wickets in the second, including a hat-trick. During the ensuing season, he displayed his credentials, claiming another five-wicket haul, and taking 47 wickets to finish as the highest wicket-taker in the 2009–10 Ranji Trophy.^[3] His call-up to the India national team to replace the injured Sreesanth came little more than ten weeks after his first-class debut, but his Karnataka coach Sanath Kumar was not surprised; "From day one we knew he had the potential, he has the pace, bowling around 140kmh, and he has performed in every game, whether it is junior cricket or first-class cricket."^[2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Player profile: Abhimanyu Mithun from ESPNcricinfo
• Player profile: Abhimanyu Mithun from CricketArchive