Divakar Vasu

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Divakar Vasu
Personal information
Born (1967-12-11) 11 December 1967 (age 51)
Coonoor, Tamil Nadu, India
BattingRight-handed
BowlingLeft-arm medium-fast, Slow left-arm orthodox
Role All-rounder
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1988/89–1998/99 Tamil Nadu
2003/04 Assam
Career statistics
Competition FC List A
Matches7641
Runs scored3,001527
Batting average 35.7221.95
100s/50s3/190/2
Top score14866
Balls bowled15,2342,054
Wickets 24050
Bowling average 25.1126.94
5 wickets in innings 140
10 wickets in match2n/a
Best bowling8/1144/36
Catches/stumpings 57/–12/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 10 January 2016

Divakar Vasu (born 11 December 1967) is a former Indian first-class cricketer who played for Tamil Nadu between the 1988/89 and 1998/99 seasons. After retirement, he became a cricket coach.

First-class cricket is an official classification of the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each although, in practice, a team might play only one innings or none at all.

Cricket Team sport played with bats and balls

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 20-metre (22-yard) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at the wicket with the bat, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this and dismiss each player. Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground. When ten players have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee in international matches. They communicate with two off-field scorers who record the match's statistical information.

Tamil Nadu cricket team

The Tamil Nadu Cricket Team is a domestic cricket team run by Tamil Nadu Cricket Association representing the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The team plays in Ranji Trophy, the top tier of the domestic first-class cricket tournament in India and in List A tournaments Vijay Hazare Trophy and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. They have won the Ranji Trophy twice and have finished runners-up nine times.. They are also the team that has won the Vijay Hazare Trophy the maximum number of times .They were also the first team to win the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. The team was known as Madras until the 1970-71 season before renaming of Madras state to Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu, the only team who had won Ranji Trophy, Irani Trophy, Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, Vijay Hazare Trophy & Deodhar Trophy in the Indian Cricket History

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Life and career

Vasu started his career as a batsman, before developing into an all-rounder who bowled left-arm medium pace. He changed his bowling style to slow left-arm orthodox after he met with a bike accident in 1993 which fractured three bones in his left ankle. In 1995, he lost vision in his left eye. [1]

All-rounder cricket role

An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling. Although all bowlers must bat and quite a few batsmen do bowl occasionally, most players are skilled in only one of the two disciplines and are considered specialists. Some wicket-keepers have the skills of a specialist batsman and have been referred to as all-rounders, but the term wicketkeeper-batsman is more commonly applied to them, even if they are substitute wicketkeepers who also bowl.

Representing Tamil Nadu for eleven seasons from 1988/89 to 1998/99 and Assam for one match in 2003/04, Vasu appeared in 76 first-class and 41 List A matches during his career. He also played for South Zone cricket team and Board President's XI. He was the second-highest wicket-taker in 1994–95 Ranji Trophy with 34 wickets at an average of 17.94. [2] Despite a successful career as an all-rounder, Vasu was never selected for the national team. He continued to play in Tamil Nadu Cricket Association first division at the conclusion of his first-class career.

The South Zone cricket team is a first-class cricket team that represents southern India in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and previously in Duleep Trophy and Deodhar Trophy also. It is a composite team of players from six first-class Indian teams from southern India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Hyderabad, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. South Zone has the third strongest track record of all the zones in the Duleep Trophy, as they have won the Trophy 11 times, with the best team, North Zone having won 17 times.

1994–95 Ranji Trophy

The 1994–95 Ranji Trophy was the 61st season of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament that took place in India between December 1994 and March 1995. Bombay won the tournament defeating Punjab in the final on first innings lead.

Tamil Nadu Cricket Association

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Vasu worked as a coach at the National Cricket Academy [3] before becoming a bowling coach for International Cricket Council, the Board of Control for Cricket in India as well as the Indian Premier League. [4] Vasu, along with M. Venkataramana, helped Pragyan Ojha correct his bowling action in 2015. [5]

The National Cricket Academy located in Chinnaswamy Stadium Bengaluru, Karnataka in India.

International Cricket Council Governing body of cricket

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the global governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from Australia, England and South Africa. It was renamed as the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989. It organises world championship events such as Cricket World Cup, Women's Cricket World Cup, ICC T20 World Cup, ICC Women's T20 World Cup, ICC Champions Trophy and Under-19 Cricket World Cup.

Board of Control for Cricket in India cricket

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Ahead of the 2019–20 season, he was appointed head coach of Tamil Nadu. [6] [7]

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  2. ↑ "Bowling in Ranji Trophy 1994/95 (Ordered by Wickets)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "Make U-15 training stronger". IBNLive. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  4. ↑ Dinakar, S. "Bowlers called for illegal action need counselling: Vasu". The Hindu. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "Pragyan Ojha's Bowling Action Cleared by BCCI". NDTV. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
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