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| Born | 22 January 1993 Mysore, Karnataka, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2013/14–present | Karnataka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
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] He also led his school cricket team at the U-14 and U-16 levels,often opening both batting and bowling. He ended leading multiple winning inter-school cricket teams in India. While at school,he was renowned for intensity on the field and his clam demeanor off it. His father Ravikumar works as a clerk in State Bank of India. He has an elder sister Mowna who works at Yahoo.He recently got engaged to Uttara Prakash and posted it on Instagram on 1 January which was his 100th post on Instagram. [1]
According to his father,he was a good sprinter and tennis player. [1]
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]
In October 2018,he was named in India C's squad for the 2018–19 Deodhar Trophy. [5] In February 2022,he was bought by the Sunrisers Hyderabad in the auction for the 2022 Indian Premier League tournament. [6]
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