Sitanshu Kotak is an Indian cricket player and coach. He played many domestic cricket matches for Saurashtra and scored over 8000 runs, but he never represented India in any international match. He has served as coach of Saurashtra team, India A team and Team India in various tournaments.
Wiki/Biography
Sitanshu Kotak aka Shitanshu Hargovindbhai Kotak was born on Thursday, October 19, 1972 in Rajkot, Gujarat, India (age 51; as of 2023). His zodiac sign is Libra. He started playing cricket at the age of thirteen and trained under the guidance of Saurashtra Ranji player Mahendra Rajdev. He later became a professional cricketer.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′ 9″
Weight (approximately): 70kg
Hair Color: Salt & Pepper
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
His father Hargovindbhai Kotak was a businessman. He has two sisters, Chetna Gohil and educationist Snehal Palan.
Sitanshu Kotak and his sisters
wife and children
He married Payal Kotak on February 18, 1997. He has a son Hetvik Kotak, a cricketer who plays domestic cricket for Saurashtra team, and a daughter Bruhi Kotak.
Sitanshu Kotak and wife Payal Kotak wedding anniversary
Sitanshu Kotak with wife and children
religion
He believes in Hinduism.
Profession
player
domestic
Sitanshu started playing for the Saurashtra Under-17 team in the 1989-90 season and played for the Saurashtra Under-19 team from 1990-91 to 1991-92. He played for the Gujarat U-19 team in the 1990-91 season and the West Zone U-19 team in the 1991-92 season. In the 1992-93 season, he played for Western University. From 1992-93 to 2013-14, he represented Saurashtra in all major domestic tournaments, including Ranji Trophy, Deodhar Trophy and Vijay Hazare Trophy.
Sitanshu Kotak played for Saurashtra in the 1990s
From the 1994-95 season to the 2001-02 season, he played in the Western Conference. In the 1999-2000 Iran Cup, he scored a hundred on behalf of the Rest of India team against the Karnataka team with Anil Kumble and Javagar Srinath as bowlers. Sitanshu played for the Saurashtra Cricket Association XI in the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons.
Sitanshu Kotak played in the 2000s
He then played in various corporate cricket tournaments for Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) from 2008-09 to 2013-14. He also captained BPCL and Saurashtra in several cricket tournaments. He retired from domestic cricket in October 2013.
Sitanshu Kotak (left) during the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) match
International
IndiaA
He played for the India A team from the 1998-99 season to the 2001-02 season.
league
birmingham premier league
Sitanshu played several seasons for Kenilworth Watch between 1996 and 2015. He also played for Warwickshire Cricket Board in 2002.
Sitanshu Kotak poses with Kenilworth Wardens and other players
coach
In October 2014, he was appointed as the head coach of Saurashtra team. Prior to his appointment, he passed the Level 1 and Level 2 coaching courses of BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) and ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board).
Sitamshu Kotak (left) early coaching career
In 2016, he became the assistant coach of Indian Premier League (IPL) team Gujarat Lions. He has also coached BPCL in many cricket tournaments.
Sitanshu Kotak (right) with Suresh Raina (hat) as assistant coach of the Gujarat Lions
In August 2019, he became the head coach of India A team. Later, he became the batting coach at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bangalore and helped Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant bat.
Sitanshu Kotak with Mayank Agarwal and Yashasvi Jaiswal (right to left) as coach of India A
In August 2023, he succeeded Rahul Dravid as the head coach of the Indian national team in the T20I series against Ireland. In December 2023, he accompanied the Indian national team in the ODI series against South Africa.
Sitamshu Kotak (far left) with Indian players during the T20I series against Ireland
Statistical data
batting statistics
first class
- Maximum score: 168 less than
List A
- Highest score: 122 less than
Fielding and Bowling Statistics
first class
- Best bowling figures: 6 wickets, 81 runs
List A
- Best bowling figures: 7 wickets, 43 runs
tattoo
Sitanshu Kotak has multiple tattoos on both arms.
Sitanshuktak’s arm tattoo
Facts/Trivia
- His batting style is left-handed and his bowling style is slow left-arm orthodoxy.
Sitamshu Kotak’s left-handed batting stance
- He listens to Hindi songs in his free time.
- Sitanshu has spoken about his desire to play for India and claimed that he scored over 800 runs in the 1998-99 Ranji Trophy season, scoring hundreds in both the Deodhar Trophy and Duleep Trophy, Hoped to be selected for the Indian team; however, the selectors considered him to be 37 years old and did not give him a chance even though he was only 27 years old at the time.
Photo taken by Sitanshu Kotak (left) during Ranji season
- In the 2007-08 Ranji season, Sitanshu scored 168 points in the group stage match against Mumbai. He faced 543 balls over three days and batted for 796 minutes (13 hours and 16 minutes). Then Mumbai captain Amol Muzumdar got so frustrated after the match that he said he needed a Kotak massage (meaning a longer massage like the one Kotak played).
- In the 2008-09 Ranji Trophy semi-final against Mumbai, he batted for 5 hours and 25 minutes and scored 89 runs from 211 deliveries. According to reports, during the match, India’s legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar told Sitanshu that he had heard that Kotak was playing for a long time and tiring the opponent. Tendulkar reportedly asked Kotak to hit one ball and leave.
Sitanshu Kotak and Sachin Tendulkar (left)
- He has a very good relationship with BCCI secretary and Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) president Niranjan Shah.
- Stanshu once said in an interview that when he turned 30, he realized that he would not get any chance to play for the Indian team.This changed his
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