Tanmay Dharamchand Agarwal (born 3 May 1995) is an Indian

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er who plays for

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. A left-handed top-order batsman, Agarwal has also represented Hyderabad at Under-14, Under-16, Under-19, Under-22 and Under-25 levels. He scored centuries on both his first-class and

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debuts for Hyderabad in 2014. Agarwal holds the world record for maximum number of sixes in a First Class match, smashing 26 sixes in his innings of 366 against Arunachal Pradesh in a Ranji Trophy match. Agarwal currently leads the Hyderabad cricket team. In February 2017, Agarwal was recruited by

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for the

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for the base price of 10

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Indian rupees. In January 2018, he was bought by the

in the 2018 IPL auction.

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* * 1995 births Living people Indian cricketers 21st-century Indian sportsmen Hyderabad cricketers Cricketers from Hyderabad, India {{India-cricket-bio-1995-stub