Vijay Bhardwaj

Vijay Bharadwaj

Personal information
Full name	Raghvendrarao Vijay Bharadwaj
Born	15 August 1975 (1975-08-15) (age 41)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling style	Right-arm offbreak
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODIs Matches 3 10 Runs scored 28 136 Batting average 9.33 27.19 100s/50s -/- -/- Top score 22 41* Balls bowled 247 372 Wickets 1 16 Bowling average 17.00 19.18 5 wickets in innings - - 10 wickets in match - n/a Best bowling 1/26 3/34 Catches/stumpings 3/- 4/-
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 4 February 2006

Raghvendrarao Vijay Bharadwaj ( pronunciation ; born 15 August 1975) is a former Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm offbreak bowler. He was a key architect of Karnataka's three Ranji Trophy triumphs in the 1990s. He won the Man of the Series award on his debut one day international series against South Africa in the LG Cup in Kenya in the 1999–2000 season. Bharadwaj currently coaches Karnataka in Ranji Trophy.

Bharadwaj made his Ranji Trophy debut for Karnataka in 1994. In his first-class career spanning from 1994 to 2006, he played in 96 matches, scoring 5553 runs and grabbing 59 wickets. A slipped-disc problem that afflicted his lower back during India's tour of Australia in 2000 under Sachin Tendulkar's captaincy, undid Bharadwaj's career. Though he recovered from the injury, he not able to replicate his form from the 1998–99 domestic season when he scored 1463 runs and grabbed 21 crucial wickets to help Karnataka defeat Madhya Pradesh in the Ranji final, close on the heels of its earlier titles in the 97-98 and 95-96 seasons. Bharadwaj last played for Karnataka in the 2004–05 season. He also played for Jharkhand in 2005 for the Ranji Trophy Plate League, after being overlooked by the selectors of the Karnataka team.