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| Born | 2 January 2000 Delhi, India | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm leg spin | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batter | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018-present | Kerala | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,9 April 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Vathsal Govind (born 2 January 2000) is an Indian cricketer who represents Kerala in domestic cricket. [1] He is a right-handed batsman and occasional left-arm leg break bowler. [2]
Vathsal was born on 2 January 2000 in Delhi [1] to Govind Kanakan and Ruma Govind Sharma. He started playing cricket at the age of five. With limited opportunities to train at the academies he joined in Delhi,his mother set up a cricket academy in 2011. In 2015,Vathsal gained selection to the Delhi U-16 squad. A year later,Vathsal moved to Kerala for professional and personal reasons. [3] As of 2018,he is a degree student at Sree Kerala Varma College,Thrissur. [4]
Vathsal was selected to play for Delhi U-16 team in 2015. In 2016,his family moved to Kerala where he continued his cricket career. [3] He was part of the India Green team for U-19 Challenger Trophy 2018. [4] [5] He captained the Kerala U-19 team for Cooch Behar Trophy in the 2018-19 season and ended up being the top run-getter of the season with 1235 runs from 8 matches. [6] [7]
His performance in the Cooch Behar Trophy pave way to the Kerala squad for 2018-19 Ranji Trophy as a replacement to an injured Rohan Prem. [4] [8] He debuted for Kerala in first-class cricket on 14 December 2018 against Delhi in the same season. [9] In February 2019,he along with his Kerala teammate Varun Nayanar was selected to play two Youth test matches for India U-19 against South Africa A. [10]
He made his List A debut on 20 February 2021,for Kerala in the 2020–21 Vijay Hazare Trophy. [11] He finished the tournament as Kerala's second-highest run-scorer with 292 runs from 5 matches, [12] including career-best 95 against Karnataka. [13] [14] He captained KCA Tuskers on 2020–21 KCA President's Cup T20. [15]
In the 2021–22 Ranji Trophy against,he scored his maiden century in first-class cricket Meghalaya. [16]