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Full name Venkatswamy Suryaprakash Thilak Naidu
Born January 27, 1978, Bangalore, Karnataka
Current age 30 years 255 days
Major teams Karnataka
Batting style Right-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
First-class
84
126
14
4117
167*
36.75
8
23
193
15
List A
53
44
9
1108
77
31.65
0
7
59
14
Twenty20
1
1
0
44
44
44.00
33
133.33
0
0
4
1
0
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
84
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
List A
53
1
4
0
-
-
-
24.00
-
0
0
0
Twenty20
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Career statistics
First-class debut
1998/99
Last First-class
North Zone v South Zone at Ahmedabad, Jan 26-28, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1999/00
Last List A
Karnataka v Rajasthan at Delhi, Mar 21, 2007 scorecard
Only Twenty20
Railways v Karnataka at Mumbai (BS), Apr 19, 2007 scorecard
Profile
Thilak Naidu, by all accounts, is a case of nurture triumphing over nature. His sense of wicketkeeping is academic rather than spontaneous, so although he effects routine catches and stumpings well enough, his glovework is not likely to pull off the difficult chance that turns a Test. Naidu's batting is powerful and hard-hitting; he has a very respectable first-class average, and if he does make it into the national side, more runs will be expected of him than of most other wicketkeepers in India. But Naidu must still push his wicketkeeping skills that extra distance to be serious competition to Parthiv Patel and Ajay Ratra. (Samanth Subramanian)
