Career
Panchal made his first cricketing appearance for the Under-15s in the 2003–04 Polly Umrigar Trophy,in which he played for two seasons. He stepped up to the Under-17s team,for whom,in his last fixture of the 2005–06 Vijay Merchant Trophy,he scored a century. The following season,he played in both the limited-overs competition and the three-day game.
On 27 February 2008,he made his List-A debut against Maharashtra in the Vijay Hazare Trophy,playing for Gujarat,where he scored 123 runs in 115 balls with the help of 17 fours and 1 six. [2]
Panchal made his first-class debut in the Ranji Trophy competition the following season,against Saurashtra,in a game which Gujarat won by an innings margin.
In November 2016,Panchal became the first player to score a triple century for Gujarat. [3] The following month,he became the first player for Gujarat to score 1,000 runs in a single Ranji Trophy season. [4] He finished the 2016–17 Ranji Trophy season with the most runs in the competition,with a total of 1,310 from ten matches and seventeen innings. [5]
He was the leading run-scorer for Gujarat in the 2017–18 Ranji Trophy,with 542 runs in seven matches. [6] In July 2018,he was named in the squad for India Green for the 2018–19 Duleep Trophy. [7] He was also the leading run-scorer for Gujarat in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy,with 367 runs in eight matches. [8] He was the leading run-scorer for Gujarat in the group-stage of the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy,with 898 runs in nine matches. [9] He finished the tournament with 898 runs in nine matches. [10]
In August 2019,he was named as the captain of the India Red team for the 2019–20 Duleep Trophy. [11] [12] In October 2019,he was named in India B's squad for the 2019–20 Deodhar Trophy. [13]
In January 2021,he was named as one of five standby players in India's Test squad for their series against England. [14] In November 2021,he was named as captain of the India A team for their tour of South Africa. [15] In December 2021,he was named in India's squad for Test series versus South Africa,replacing Rohit Sharma,who was suffering from hamstring injury. [16] In February 2022,he was named in India's Test squad for their series against Sri Lanka. [17] He was close to making his debut during the 2021-22 South Africa tour but didn’t get the chance to wear the national cap. [18]
In May 2025,Panchal announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. [19]
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