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Ravikumar Samarth
- Age
- 33y 280d
- Bats
- Right-hand
- Bowls
- Right-arm off break
- From
- Mysore
- Age
- 33y 280d
- Bats
- Right-hand
- Bowls
- Right-arm off break
- From
- Mysore
Ravikumar Samarth is a Bangalore-born right-hander who opens the batting for Karnataka and can also send down the odd spell of off-spin. His path into the state's Ranji Trophy side opened up when KL Rahul and Manish Pandey moved on to represent India, which allowed Samarth to settle in as a regular at the top of the order.
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Before his senior career began, he featured in several age-group competitions. His first-class bow for Karnataka came in the 2013-14 season, when he went in first and scored 75 against Mumbai. In the 2015-16 domestic campaign he gathered 487 runs, averaging a little over 40.
The 2016-17 season marked his real arrival. Samarth finished as Karnataka's top run-getter with 702 runs at 46.80, and the national selectors took note. When Abhinav Mukund was injured, Samarth was brought in as his replacement for the India A trip to South Africa, a tour built around two unofficial four-day Tests.
He kept up his output in the 2017/18 Ranji Trophy, making 652 runs from 12 innings at an average of 59.27. Those runs were central to Karnataka's progress to the semi-finals, and the side went on to lift the Vijay Hazare Trophy a few months afterwards. Despite that form, no franchise picked him up at the IPL auction.
The selectors kept faith with him, naming him, then aged 25, in the India A squad for a four-day tour of England after the IPL. He made an immediate impact there, striking a match-defining 127 in the second innings against Windies A.
Recent form
- Runs
- 210
- Inns
- 5
- Avg
- 42.00
- SR
- 56.6
- HS
- 143
- 4s / 6s
- 23 / 1
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