Akshay Karnewar is an ambidextrous cricketer who plays for Vidarbha team in the domestic circuit. He represented his team in first division and first division competitions. He also played in the ‘Twenty20’ tournament and rose to fame for his record-breaking feat of playing four overs without conceding a run and taking two wickets.
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Akshay Karnewar was born on Monday, October 12, 1992 in Vagoli, Maharashtra (age 29; as of 2021). His zodiac sign is Libra. He started playing cricket at the age of six and at 13, his coach Balu Navghare spotted him and suggested him to bowl left-arm spin bowling instead of right-arm. A few years later, he played in the DY Patil T20 league in Mumbai and then tried out for the Rajasthan Royals but was not selected.
Akshay Karnewal, 2014
He gradually rose to prominence in the A-League cricket in December 2015 and later moved up to the first-class cricket for Vidarbha team. In 2016, he was acquired by Royal Challengers Bangalore for INR 10 lakh in IPL.
Akshay Karnewar for Royal Challengers Bangalore
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′ 9″
Hair color: natural black
Eye color: dark brown
family
Akshay Karnewar comes from a family in Maharashtra.
Parents and siblings
His father’s name is Kishan Karnewar, a retired driver of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation.
wife
Akshay Khanewal and his wife
address
Nagpur, Maharashtra
Profession
He made his first major appearance on 10 December 2015, playing for Vidarbha in the Vijay Hazare Trophy A match against Odisha. He not only impressed the critics with two wickets but also scored 72 valuable runs. He ended up being the main wicket-taker for Vidarbha (16) in that match. After the series, he took 7 wickets in 9 games in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 (SMAT) tournament. His next debut was a Twenty20 match against Gujarat at the Vidarbha Cricket Stadium in Nagpur (Maharashtra) on 3 January 2016. Batting first, Gujarat scored 174 runs. In reply, Vidarbha could only score 114 runs and lost the match by 60 runs. Akshay was on the expensive side in two overs, conceding 26 runs without a wicket. Soon, on October 27, 2016, he made his debut against Jharkhand in the Ranji Trophy. In this match, he took two wickets and scored 39 runs. His first five-wicket haul came against Punjab in the 2017-18 Ranji season. In the same year, he represented the Chairman’s XI in a warm-up match against Australia, taking a wicket from Travis Head while conceding 59 runs in six overs.
Akshay Karnewar left-arm bowling against Australia
Akshay Karnewar bowling right arm
On February 14, 2019, he played against Rest of India (ROI) in the Iran Cup match, which helped his team win the coveted title for the second consecutive time in domestic cricket. The first hundred percent.
Vidarbha’s Akshay Karnewar is the rare cricketer who bats the left and right arm with the same movement
Akshay was declared the best player in Vidarbha vs Rest of India match
classic! ! pic.twitter.com/DbJEnRJy7q
— Nigel D’Souza (@Nigel__DSouza) February 21, 2019
Historic Twenty-Twenty Spells
He entered the history books by playing the full four overs for the first time in Syed Mushtaq Ali’s match against Manipur on November 8, 2021. Vidarbha scored 222 runs with the help of Jitesh Sharma and Apoorv Wankhede. Manipur, on the other hand, was off track throughout the chase and managed to score 55 runs in 17 overs. Akshay was actually disqualified from bowling after bowling three consecutive overs. When he returned, he scored six runs and completed his four overs with two wickets to spare. This was the first time in men’s cricket that a bowler did not concede a run in a full T20 quota.
Akshay Karnewar’s bowling match against Manipur
Later, in an interview with the media, he said
“It’s incredible. I didn’t lose a point the whole game, which is already an amazing thing. I feel really good.”
Former Vidarbha coach Sulakshan Kulkarni praised his efforts, saying:
“He is a player who has performed well. He showed his mettle with the bat in the second Ranji final in Vidarbha. Then, scored 100 runs in the Iran Cup and now has another outstanding performance.”
The next day, he scored a hat-trick against Sikkim with the last two balls of the eighth over and the first ball of the tenth over, and a new chapter in his record books awaited him. Vidarbha scored 205 runs on the board. Sikkim could score only 75 runs in 20 overs after losing eight wickets. Akshay completed his spell with five runs in four overs and took four wickets. Interestingly, two of them were caught by the bowlers and one was hit by the wicket. Ajit Kartik, captain Clancy Kumar, wicketkeepers Ashish Thapa and Nilesh Ramichani were among his victims.
Akshay Karnewar’s bowling against Sikkim
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Facts/Trivia
- In an interview with a local news channel, he recounted his ambidextrous bowling journey, saying:
“When I was 13, my coach Balu Navghare asked me if I could bat with my left arm. I have been using both my arms since then. My aim was always to pick up The wicket. I first look at the batsman’s performance and then decide if I have to really use my arms to take his wicket. Sometimes, I don’t.”
He also said,
“I usually bowl with no spin. My coach told me to bowl left-handed. Since there was a lack of left-arm spinners in the team, I bowled a lot and was successful. But now I can bowl with both hands. Not just that. , I can do a lot more with my hands.”
- Australia all-rounder Marcus Stoinis was impressed with his bowling in the warm-up match against Australia and he said:
“I actually didn’t know what the umpire was trying to tell me. He was trying to say ‘He’s going to throw the left arm to you’. So he was brilliant. I’d never seen that before.”
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