After talking about the profile of Farokh Engineer we are now talking about Murali Vijay and he is one of the best opening batters India has ever seen in test cricket. He does not play for India now but he can contribute a lot in both test cricket and white ball cricket.
Murali Vijay has scored lots of hundreds in test cricket for India and he is one of those players who could play the aggressive Innings or play the waiting game and take lots of balls to tire out the opposition and he was a very pleasing player to watch play. He still wants to play for India but it looks very unlikely that he will get an opportunity now that so many young talented openers are in the Indian team. Let’s look at the Profile, Stats and Records
Murali Vijay Profile
Personal Information
Murali Vijay was born on 1st April 1984 at Tambaram which was in Madras in Tamil Nadu. He was a young cricket fan and he was a young cricket fan and he wanted to play cricket and he trained and he served Indian cricket very well. He is called “Monk” by his teammates and fans because he drank Old Monk rum for the first time during an Under-16 tour. He is also a very handy right arm off break bowler when needed.
International Information
Murali Vijay has been playing cricket for India from 2008 and his last match was in 2018 which was 4 years ago. His first test match was on 6th November 2008 vs Australia and he was test cap number 260 for India and the last test match that he played was on 14th December 2018 vs Australia and after that he has not played any test match for India. His first ODI was against 27th February 2010 vs South Africa and his last ODI match was on 9th July 2015 vs Zimbabwe. He also played T20I for India from 2010-2015.
Murali Vijay Career Stats
Competition | Test | ODIs |
Matches | 61 | 17 |
Runs Scored | 3982 | 339 |
Batting average | 38.29 | 21.18 |
100s/50s | 12/15 | 0/1 |
Top score | 167 | 72 |
Balls bowled | 354 | 36 |
Wickets | 1 | 1 |
Bowling average | 198.00 | 37.00 |
5 wickets in an innings | 0 | 0 |
10 wickets in a match | 0 | 0 |
Best bowling | 1/12 | 1/19 |
Catches | 49 | 9 |
Murali Vijay Records
10th Worst Career bowling average in Test cricket – 198.00
6th highest partnership for the 2nd wicket – 370 runs
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