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Full name | Yalaka Gnaneswara Rao | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India | 25 August 1984||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Venugopal Rao (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2000/01–present | Andhra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FC debut | 1 November 2000 Andhra v Kerala | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last FC | 25 December 2007 Andhra v Bengal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LA debut | 7 January 2004 Andhra v Goa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last LA | 26 March 2008 South Zone v West Zone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,22 May 2013 |
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