Vivek Jaisimha (born 18 March 1964) is an Indian former

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adju ...

er who represented

Hyderabad Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...

and

Goa Goa (; ; ) is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is bound by the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north, and Karnataka to the ...

. He is the son of former India international cricketer

M. L. Jaisimha Motganhalli Laxminarsu Jaisimha (3 March 1939 – 6 July 1999) was an Indian Test cricketer. Playing career Jaisimha was a right-handed batsman who was noted for his style on and off the field. He bowled medium pace, often opening the bowlin ...

Life and career

Jaisimha was born on 18 March 1964 in

. His father

was also a batsman who played 39 Test matches for India. Jaisimha was a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm

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bowler. He played for Hyderabad for 12 seasons from 1982/83 to 1993/94 and Goa for four seasons from 1994/95 to 1997/98. He was part of the Hyderabad team that won the 1986–87 Ranji Trophy and 1987–88 Irani Cup. Jaisimha was one of the top five run-getters of the 1989–90 Ranji Trophy with 534 runs at an average of over 59. He finished his career with close to 4000 runs in 78 first-class matches and more than 500 runs in 19

List A List A cricket is a classification of the Limited overs cricket, 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 competit ...

matches. Jaisimha became a coach after retirement. He worked as the assistant coach of Hyderabad in the early- and mid-2000s. Between 2008 and 2010, he worked as a match referee. He was the batting coach of Hyderabad until November 2010, when he resigned from the position in the aftermath of Hyderabad getting bowled out for 21, the lowest ever Ranji total, in a match against Rajasthan. He then worked as one of the coaches at the

Hyderabad Cricket Association Hyderabad Cricket Association is the governing body of cricket activities in Hyderabad and other districts in the state of Telangana in India and the Hyderabad cricket team. It is an affiliated member of the Board of Control for Cricket in India ...

's Cricket Academy of Excellence.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jaisimha, Vivek 1964 births Living people Indian cricketers 20th-century Indian sportsmen Hyderabad cricketers Goa cricketers South Zone cricketers Indian cricket coaches Cricketers from Hyderabad, India