Murali Vijay

Personal information

Full name

Murali Vijay

Born

1 April 1984 (age 32)
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Nickname

Monk

Height

6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)

Batting style

Right-handed

Bowling style

Right-arm off break

Role

Opening batsman

International information

National side

India

Test debut (cap 260)

6 November 2008 v Australia

Last Test

20 December 2016 v England

ODI debut (cap 181)

27 February 2010 v South Africa

Last ODI

9 July 2015 v Zimbabwe

ODI shirt no.

T20I debut (cap 27)

1 May 2010 v Afghanistan

Last T20I

19 July 2015 v Zimbabwe

Domestic team information

Years

Team

2005–present

2009–2013

2014

2015–present

Career statistics

Competition	Tests	ODIs	T20I	LA
Matches	47	17	9	81
Runs scored	3180	339	169	3,227
Batting average	40.25	21.18	18.77	41.37
100s/50s	8/14	0/1	-/-	7/17
Top score	167	72	48	155
Balls bowled	306	36	12	287
Wickets	1	1	0	9
Bowling average	147	37.00	-	29.33
5 wickets in innings	0	–	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	–	0	n/a
Best bowling	1/12	1/19	-	3/13
Catches/stumpings	37/–	9/–	3/–	34/–

Source: ESPNCricinfo, 29 January 2017

Murali Vijay (born 1 April 1984) is an Indian international cricketer who plays as a right-handed opening batsman. A regular member of the Indian Test team, he also represents Tamil Nadu in first-class cricket and is captain of the Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Having started playing cricket at the age of 17, Vijay played club cricket in Chennai before he was selected in the Tamil Nadu Under-22 team. He quickly came up the ranks and made his first-class debut for the Tamil Nadu senior team in 2006. He was one of the top run-scorers of the 2006-07 Ranji Trophy, which was his maiden first-class tournament. By October 2008, he went on to represent South Zone, India Red and India A, and in November 2008, he was handed his Test debut after regular opener Gautam Gambhir was banned for one match by the ICC.

He started his cricket at the age of 17. He first played club cricket in Chennai representing Alwarpet in 2003. He was then selected in the Tamil Nadu Under-22 squad for the 2004-05 CK Nayudu Trophy. Tamil Nadu Under-22 won the tournament, but, opening the innings, Vijay averaged just 26.45 in 6 matches. He continued to play club cricket in 2005, before getting selected again in the Tamil Nadu Under-22 squad for the 2005-06 CK Nayudu Trophy. He failed to impress once again, averaging 26.50 in 3 matches.

Despite his below-average performances in club cricket and Under-22 tournaments, Vijay was selected in the Tamil Nadu squad for the Ranji One-day Trophy in February 2006. He made his senior cricket debut in Tamil Nadu's last group fixture of the tournament, against Karnataka on 16 February, and scored 17 in that match. He scored 38 in the quarterfinal against Railways who won the match by one run.

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