Abhishek Gupta (born 30 September 1990) is an Indian

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...

er. He made his first-class debut for

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

in the

2017–18 Ranji Trophy The 2017–18 Ranji Trophy was the 84th season of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament that took place in India between October 2017 and January 2018. Vidarbha won the tournament, beating Delhi by 9 wickets in the final, ...

on 6 October 2017, scoring a century. He made his

Twenty20 Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the county cricket, inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have ...

debut for Punjab in the

2017–18 Zonal T20 League 2017–18 Zonal T20 League was a Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It was played from 7 to 16 January 2018. It was the second edition of the tournament, following the 2016–17 Inter State Twenty-20 Tournament held in January and February 2 ...

on 9 January 2018. He made his

List A List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...

debut for Punjab in the

2017–18 Vijay Hazare Trophy The 2017–18 Vijay Hazare Trophy was the 16th season of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, a List A cricket tournament in India. It was contested by the 28 domestic cricket teams of India. Tamil Nadu were the defending champions. In December 2017, the f ...

on 7 February 2018. In June 2018, the

Board of Control for Cricket in India The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the national governing body for cricket in India. Its headquarters are situated at Cricket centre, Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The BCCI is the richest governing body of cricket in the world ...

(BCCI) gave him a retrospective eight-month doping ban. The following month, he was named in the squad for India Red for the

2018–19 Duleep Trophy The 2018–19 Duleep Trophy was the 57th season of the Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament in India, which took place in August and September 2018. India Red were the defending champions. All of the matches took place at the NPR Co ...

. However, he was withdrawn from the squad and replaced by

Akshay Wadkar Akshay Wadkar (born 9 July 1994) is an Indian cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Vidarbha in the 2017–18 Ranji Trophy on 17 November 2017. On 31 December 2017, in the final of the tournament, he scored his maiden first-class century ...

References

External links

* 1990 births Living people Indian cricketers Place of birth missing (living people) Punjab, India cricketers Wicket-keepers {{India-cricket-bio-1990-stub