Mayank Anurag Agarwal

Mayank Agarwal Career

Top-order batsman Mayank Agarwal was born in Bangalore on February 16 of the year 1991. He is a professional cricketer who has represented India in Test and One-Day International cricket. He is a part of Karnataka in domestic cricket, Agarwal made his International cricket debut while playing a test match against Australia on the 26th of December 2018. He scored a triple ton in first-class cricket while playing an outstanding inning of 304 runs not out against Maharashtra while playing for Karnataka. He also achieved the milestone of scoring the first thousand runs in first-class cricket. Mayank Agarwal was also a leading run-scorer of the Ranji season 2017-18, scoring a total of 1160 runs. He became a part of India’s squad in September 2018 for a Test series that was going to be played against West Indies but could not play in the matches. In the same year, he was included in India’s squad for a test series against Australia when Prithvi Shaw met an injury and got ruled out of the series. Agarwal made his test debut against Australia and played a wonderful inning of 76 runs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground also known as MCG. He also made a record for scoring the highest number of runs in a test debut on the land of Australia by breaking the previous record of Dattu Phadkar, who made 51 runs at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) in the year 1947. Agarwal also played the fourth test of the series and scored a total of 195 runs in the test series against Australia. Vijay Shankar was ruled out from the India’s squad for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 which was played in England, and Mayank Agarwal became a part of the team by replacing Vijay Shankar in the World Cup squad. Mayank Agarwal scored his maiden test century while playing against South Africa in October 2019. He converted his maiden test century to his first double ton in the red ball format of the game and scored a total of 215 runs in 371 balls, he made this huge total by hitting 29 beautiful boundaries including 23 fours and 6 massive sixes. He also became the second Indian opener to hit back-to-back centuries against South Africa in Test cricket after Virender Sehwag. While playing against Bangladesh at Holkar Stadium Indore in November 2019, Mayank Agarwal hit his second double ton in the game that too without playing even 10 games in Test Cricket.

IPL over the years

Mayank Agarwal’s Indian Premier League journey started when he was bought by the Royal Challengers Bangalore for the 4th edition of the Indian Premier League in cricket 2011 at his base price of Rs.10 lakhs. He got 7 innings to play in the year 2011 where he scored 141 runs in total scoring 41 the highest in the season. He was a part of the Royals Challengers Bangalore from the 4th season of the league to the sixth edition i.e 2011-13. However, he got only 5 opportunities to play in the Indian Premier League season 6. IPL 2019 season was quite good for the player where he received the maximum number of chances to showcase his talent as a promising batter while playing for Punjab Kings in the 2021 IPL season he scored 441 runs which was his highest season score ever in the Indian Premier League. He played for the Kings XI Punjab in the IPL 2022 season and got sufficient opportunities to showcase his talent, his highest score came against the Mumbai Indians where he scored 53 runs in just 32 balls. Agarwal is playing for the Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2023, he was bought by the franchise at a huge amount of 8.25 crores.

Year	Team	Contract
2011	Royal Challengers Bangalore	₹ 1,000,000
2012	Royal Challengers Bangalore	₹ 1,000,000
2013	Royal Challengers Bangalore	₹ 1,000,000
2014	Delhi Capitals	₹ 16,000,000
2015	Delhi Capitals	₹ 16,000,000
2016	Delhi Capitals	₹ 16,000,000
2017	Rising Pune Supergiant	₹ 16,000,000
2018	Punjab Kings	₹ 10,000,000
2019	Punjab Kings	₹ 10,000,000
2020	Punjab Kings	₹ 10,000,000
2021	Punjab Kings	₹ 10,000,000
2022	Punjab Kings	₹ 120,000,000
2023	Sunrisers Hyderabad	₹ 8,25,00,000

What is Mayank Agarwal’s Ranking?

Form	Year	Rating Pts (Highest)	Highest Rank
T20I	Not Played	Not Played	Not Played
ODI	2020	158	283
	2021	156	295
	2022	149	282
Test	2018	446	68
	2019	700	10
	2020	727	10
	2021	712	11
	2022	710	12

Mayank Agarwal Stats

IPL

Team	Matches	Runs	Average	Strike Rate
Royal Challengers Bangalore (2011-13)	28	433	18.82	127.30
Delhi Capitals (2014-16)	21	355	17.75	121.10
Rising Pune Supergiant (2017)	03	26	8.66	96.20
Punjab Kings (2018-22)	60	1513	26.54	141.00

International and Domestic

FORMAT	Matches	Runs	Average	Strike Rate
TEST	21	1488	41.33	53.48
ODI	05	86	17.20	103.61
FC	91	6846	45.94	59.03
LIST A	98	4296	45.70	99.42
T20	188	4334	25.64	134.22

What are some unknown facts about Mayank Agarwal?

• Mayank Agarwal is a very promising opener, having the ability to play crucial innings for the team, he also has a great capability to build partnerships for the first wicket. He has also scored double centuries in test cricket that too in his initial few international games.
• He considers Sachin Tendulkar as his idol, he often says that he started playing cricket by seeing Tendulkar's batting, Sachin had always been a great source of inspiration for Agarwal.
• In November 2019, Mayank Agarwal played an outstanding inning, scoring his second double ton in Test cricket, the match was played against Bangladesh at the Holkar Stadium in India's cleanest city Indore.
• Mayank has played for several teams in IPL like Royal Challengers Bangalore, Rising Pune Supergiants and Punjab Kings.
• His Initial Indian Premier League journey was not that good as he could not get many opportunities to play and showcase his talent on the field, but in the recent few seasons especially in IPL 2020 & 2021, Agarwal got many chances to perform and his performances were also quite appreciable in the tournament.
• ICC Under-19 cricket World Cup 2010 also proved to be very fruitful for the player as he scored a lot of runs in the tournament, which made the Royal Challengers Bangalore look for the player and later he became a part of the team.
• Mayank Agarwal was one of the leading scorers in the Vijay Hazare trophy season 2017-18, he scored 723 runs in total in just 8 games. Due to his consistent performances, he was added to the squad of India B for the Deodhar Trophy season 2018-19.
• He performed really very well in domestic seasons during 2017-18 which became a key attraction for the selectors of different Indian Premier League, and finally, he joined the squad of Kings XI Punjab for a whopping amount of Rupees 1 crore.
• His brother is also a cricketer, who has played cricket at the state level, and his father is a builder. Mayank Agarwal got engaged to Aashita Sood in the year 2018.
• He was also a part of India's squad for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 which was played in England, India lost the game to New Zealand in the semifinal and got ruled out of the tournament.

Mayank Agarwal Videos

The first video is taken from a match between India and South Africa, in which Mayank Agarwal played an outstanding knock and scored the first hundred and finally extended it to his first double ton in test cricket. The game was played against a team having a powerful bowling lineup still he managed to play shots in each and every direction on the field and was successful in hitting a satisfying double century in the initial games of his International career. The link to his great knock is mentioned here;

Mayank Agarwal is known for his aggressive batting style on the field, this video is a compilation of the best sixes of Agarwal in both the international and IPL matches. He has a unique ability to play shots with greater strength to make the ball reach any corner in any direction of the ground. The link to the best sky-fires of Mayank Agarwal is given below:

Where does Mayank Agarwal live?

The hometown of Mayank Agarwal is in Karnataka, he started playing cricket at an early age, and he had a sports-friendly environment at his home, his brother is also a state-level cricket player.

What are Mayank Agarwal's educational qualifications?

Mayank Agarwal completed his schooling at Bishop Boys School in Karnataka and then joined Jain University, Bengaluru. He managed his game and studies simultaneously, later he started solely focusing on his game and finally established himself as a promising opener for the teams.

What is Mayank Agarwal's Net Worth?

Mayank Agarwal is a professional cricketer who has represented India in various formats of the game except for the T-20 internationals. He is also a part of the Indian Premier League and his net worth is expected to be around 7 million dollars.