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Thangarasu Natarajan

Born

May 27, 1991 (34 years)

Role

Bowler

Nationality

India

Batting Style

Left-Hand-Bat

Bowling Style

Left-Arm Bowl

Thangarasu Natarajan Statistics

Batting Stats

Matches

Innings

Runs

Highest Score

Not Out

50.00

Strike Rate

50's

100's

200's

8.00

Average

Balls

300's

4's

6's

Ducks

Bowling Stats

Matches

Innings

104

Wickets

2060

Balls

2925

Runs

Overs

8.51

Economy

Maidens

4/19

BBI

10W

Hattricks

28.12

Average

19.8

Strike Rate

Career Debut Information

Test vs Australia at The Gabba, Jan 15, 2021

ODIvs Australia at Manuka Oval, Dec 02, 2020

T20 vs Australia at Manuka Oval, Dec 04, 2020

Teams played for

India, Tamil Nadu, Kings XI Punjab, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Delhi Capitals

About Player

From almost being a coolie to a million dollar baby in the IPL, Natarajan's journey as a cricketer is worth the read. Hailing from the town of Salem, the left arm quickie learnt his basics playing tennis ball cricket. Yorkers bowled with the tennis ball changed to cutters with the seasoned ball but the impact remained the same on the batsman.

Touted as India's Mustafizur Rahman, KXIP picked him up 3 crores for IPL 2017 after his sterling performances in the domestic season and in the first season of TNPL as well. He played in 6 games in his debut IPL season and picked up 2 wickets. That was anti-climactic but was a good learning curve for someone so raw.

Natarajan's early promise was spotted by A Jayaprakash, a division cricketer. Natarajan moved to Chennai and the rest as they say is history. Natarajan missed the 2017-18 season of Ranji season owing to an elbow injury but was still picked up during the 2018 IPL auctions by SRH for 40 lakhs. However, he was benched for the entire season with plenty of experienced campaigners competing for the role..

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