New Delhi. The Indian team has been announced for the T20 series against South Africa. Vijay Kumar Vaish was included in the team for the first time. Vijay plays for Karnataka in domestic cricket and for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League. He made his List A debut for Karnataka in the 2020–21 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 24 February 2021. He then made his T20 debut for Karnataka in the 2021–22 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on 5 November 2021. He made his first-class debut for Karnataka in the 2021–22 Ranji Trophy on 17 February 2022.
On 7 April 2023, Royal Challengers Bangalore signed Vijay to the team as a replacement for Rajat Patidar for the 2023 Indian Premier League. He made his IPL debut on April 15, 2023 against Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League 2023. Vijay Kumar was also an opener batsman initially but later he focused more on bowling. On his IPL debut, he took the first wicket of Delhi captain David Warner.
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Vijay Kumar has taken 99 wickets in 25 first-class matches while he had 34 wickets to his name in 21 List A matches. On the other hand, if we talk about T20, Vijay Kumar has taken 42 wickets in 30 matches. Now it remains to be seen whether he will be able to play even a single match in the T20 series against South Africa or not. We tell you that the T20 series will start on November 8th. A total of 4 T20 International matches will be played. All games will be played in South Africa.
Indian team for the T20 series: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Vijaykumar Vaish, Avesh Khan And Yash Dayal.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: October 26, 2024, 10:21 AM IST