External links
- Vijay Zol at ESPNcricinfo
- Vijay Zol Profile and latest news at Sportskeeda
- Vijay Zol IPL Profile Archived 30 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine from RoyalChallengers
- Vijay Zol on Twitter
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Vijay Hari Zol | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 November 1994 Jalna, Maharashtra, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–present | Maharashtra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,14 August 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vijay Hari Zol (born 23 November 1994) is an Indian cricketer. He is a left-handed middle-order batsman who plays for Maharashtra. He is from Jalna,Maharashtra. [1] [2]
In 2012,he signed a youth contract with the IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore. He was also a member of India Under-19 cricket team. [3] He was selected as the captain of Indian under 19 cricket team 2014.
In December 2011,in an Under-19 first-class match for Maharashtra cricket team. Zol scored an unbeaten 451 off 467 deliveries,batting for almost eleven hours and hitting 53 boundaries and two sixes in the record-breaking inning. [4]
Though there are no official records to verify exactly where he stands in the record books in youth cricket,Zol's score was higher than Bhausaheb Nimbalkar's landmark 443,the highest first-class score by an Indian set in 1948 during a Ranji Trophy match between Maharashtra and Saurashtra cricket team.
Previously,he scored a double-century against Gujarat in the league stage of 2010's Vijay Merchant tournament. He was also a member of India Under-19 team that won Asia Cup jointly with Pakistan. He was the man of the match in the final which ended in tie. [5]
After Asia Cup,he was appointed as the vice-captain of the team for 2012 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Australia. [6] He played a crucial role for team in the World Cup. His batting at number 3 was well appreciated by cricketing greats.
He was in red-hot form having posted scores of 128,173 and 128 in 2013. He produced another compelling batting display blasting 10 fours and two sixes during his 115-ball 103,and added vital stands of 67,53 and 67 for the second,third and fourth wickets with Shubham Khajuria,Shreyas Iyer and Ricky Bhui.
Under his captaincy India under-19 team won the Quadrangular Series in 2013-14. [7] Out of the 6 matches played in the tournament India won 4 of them and 1 match ended without any result. Zol was the top run-scorer for India in the final as India crushed South Africa by 201 runs. Vijay zol was named the captain of the Under-19 Indian Cricket team in 2014 for the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Dubai. [8] India were defeated in the tightly contested quarter-final tie by England in which the Indian captain scored 48 runs. [9] [10]
He made his List "A" debut in February 2012 against Baroda. He scored 27 off 44 balls with 5 fours in his first visit to crease. In 2012,he signed a youth contract with the IPL team Royal Challengers Bangalore.
In 2013,he was named in the India "A" squad for the long-format matches against the touring New Zealand "A" team. Zol scored a maiden century on his first-class debut in his 1st unofficial Test at Visakhapatnam.
In December 2011,in an Under-19 first-class match for Maharashtra. Zol scored an unbeaten 451 off 467 deliveries,batting for almost eleven hours,and hit 53 boundaries and two sixes in that record-breaking innings.
Best Under-16 Cricketer 2011 MA Chidambaram Award for the Best U-19 Cricketer
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