Ravikumar Samarth
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Full name | Ravikumar Samarth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Mysore, Karnataka, India | 22 January 1993||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling style | Right-arm off break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2013/14–present | Karnataka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 14 March 2015 |
Ravikumar Samarth (born 22 January 1993) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Karnataka cricket team. He is a right-handed top-order batsman and occasional right-arm off break bowler. He played for Karnataka at various age-group levels such as Under-12, Under-14, Under-16 and Under-19, before making his first-class debut in December 2013.[1]
Early and personal life
Samarth did his schooling at the Bishop Cotton Boys' School and B'Com at SBM Jain College which comes under the umbrella of Jain University,[2] Bangalore. While studying at Bishop Cottons, he trained at the Karnataka Institute of Cricket.[3] His father Ravikumar works as a clerk in State Bank of India. He has an elder sister Mowna who works at Yahoo!.[1]
According to his father, he was a good sprinter and tennis player.[1]
Career
Samarth played division cricket in the KSCA league. In 2011, he scored over 1200 runs in the national Under-19 tournaments - Vinoo Mankad Trophy and Cooch Behar Trophy.[1]
In 2013, he scored six hundreds from eight innings for KSCA President's XI in the Safi Darashah Trophy, including five hundreds in succession.[3] He made his first-class debut for Karnataka against Mumbai in December 2013 and scored 18 and 75 in that match opening the innings.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Watch out for Ravikumar Samarth". Times of India. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
- ↑ http://www.jainuniversity.ac.in/
- 1 2 "Six of the best". The Hindu. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
- ↑ "Ranji Trophy, Group A: Karnataka v Mumbai at Bangalore, Dec 22-25, 2013". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
External links
- Player profile: Ravikumar Samarth from ESPNcricinfo
- Player profile: Ravikumar Samarth from CricketArchive