Tanmay Mishra (born 22 December 1986 in
Mumbai,
India) is an Indian-born
Kenyan former
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 striki ...
er. A right-handed aggressive middle-order batsman, he made his
One Day International
A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, currently 50, with the game lasting up to 9 hours. The Cricket World C ...
debut for
Kenya in 2006 against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo.
Early life
Born in Mumbai, he moved to Kenya in 1994, at the age of 8.
Career
In 2007, Tanmay enrolled himself in an Indian University, and this prevented him from making any appearances for the Kenyan national side for the next three years. He returned to the national team in 2010 October.
Mishra was bought by the
Deccan Chargers ahead of
IPL 5, he has been signed as an 'Indian' as he has an Indian passport (India does not allow dual citizenship). In the 2014 IPL players auction, he was bought by the
Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs. 10 lakhs.
In the domestic circle, he scored his first
List A
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century in 2019, 13 years after he had played his first domestic one-day match. His ton came in
Tripura's 2019–20
Vijay Hazare Trophy
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match against
Madhya Pradesh.
He played in the
2011 Cricket World Cup
The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup was the tenth Cricket World Cup. It was played in India, Sri Lanka, and for the first time in Bangladesh. India won the tournament, defeating Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the final at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, thus ...
, when in five matches he scored 133 runs. He was Kenya's second-highest scorer behind
Collins Obuya. He made his highest ODI score of 72 in the match against
Australia
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, when he and Obuya added 115 for the fourth wicket.
References
External links
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From playing World Cup for Kenya to piling runs for Tripura - Tanmay Mishra Story by Bastab K Parida
1986 births
Living people
Cricketers from Mumbai
Kenyan cricketers
Kenya One Day International cricketers
Kenya Twenty20 International cricketers
Cricketers at the 2007 Cricket World Cup
Cricketers at the 2011 Cricket World Cup
Indian cricketers
Indian emigrants to Kenya
Deccan Chargers cricketers
Royal Challengers Bangalore cricketers
Kenyan people of Indian descent
Indian expatriates in Kenya
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