Vikram Solanki

Personal information

Full name

Vikram Singh Solanki

Born

1 April 1976 (age 41)
Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Nickname

Vik

Height

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Batting style

Right-handed

Bowling style

Right-arm off break

International information

National side

England

ODI debut (cap 156)

23 January 2000 v South Africa

Last ODI

1 July 2006 v Sri Lanka

ODI shirt no.

T20I debut (cap 8)

13 June 2005 v Australia

Last T20I

19 September 2007 v India

Domestic team information

Years

Team

1995–2012

Worcestershire (squad no. 3)

2006–2007

Rajasthan

2013–2015

Surrey (squad no. 42)

Career statistics

Competition	ODI	T20I	FC	LA
Matches	51	3	325	402
Runs scored	1,097	76	18,359	11,045
Batting average	26.75	25.33	35.78	32.39
100s/50s	2/5	0/0	34/98	16/64
Top score	106	43	270	164*
Balls bowled	111	0	7,238	1,122
Wickets	1	–	90	28
Bowling average	105.00	–	47.00	35.25
5 wickets in innings	0	–	4	0
10 wickets in match	n/a	n/a	1	n/a
Best bowling	1/17	–	5/40	4/14
Catches/stumpings	16/–	3/0	350/–	162/–

Source: Cricinfo, 30 March 2015

Vikram Singh Solanki (born 1 April 1976) is an Indian-born former English cricketer, who played county cricket for Surrey having previously spent 17 years at Worcestershire. In 2007, he became the 24th Worcestershire batsman to pass 10,000 career runs for the county. He also captained Worcestershire from 2005 to 2010, before resigning mid-season. He also played over 50 One Day Internationals for his country as a batsman and occasional off-spinner. In September 2015 he announced his retirement as a player.

Solanki was born in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, but moved to Wolverhampton with his family at the age of eight. Solanki played junior and senior cricket for Wolverhampton cricket club and he made his first-class debut for Worcestershire in 1995, although he had played one-day cricket for the county two seasons earlier. In 1996 he was awarded the NBC Denis Compton Award. Although principally taken on by Worcestestershire as a batsman, on his first class debut, due to there being no fit spinners available, he was selected to bowl his off breaks — something he had done with a degree of success the previous winter while on tour with England U19. Although generally an occasional bowler, Solanki produced a ten-wicket haul, five wickets in each innings, against Lancashire at Old Trafford in 1996. In 1999 he achieved a batting average of over 40, something he repeated in 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006. 2006 was also the first season since 2000 in which he managed to top 1,000 first-class runs, making 1,252.

After obtaining an LLB from the Open University, Vikram is currently studying the Legal Practice Course at the University of Law.

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