Vijaykumar Yo Mahesh (born 21 December 1987), is a former Indian cricketer who played for

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. He is a right-hand batsman and bowls with his right hand. He studied in St. Bede's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in

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. He broke into the Indian U19 one-day squad for the series against

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in September 2005 and played sufficiently well to retain his squad place for both the

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and the

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. In his ten U19 ODIs to date, he has taken 15 wickets with a strike rate of one wicket every 32 balls. Previously, from 2008 to 2010, he played for

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in the IPL. He was then signed up by the

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in 2011 and released after the end of IPL 2012. He took most wickets in the

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, India's domestic 50 over tournament. He can swing the ball both ways. On 20 December 2020, Mahesh announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.

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