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Full name Yalaka Venugopal Rao
Born February 26, 1982, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
Current age 26 years 150 days
Major teams India,Andhra,Deccan Chargers,India A,Indian Board President's XI,Rajasthan Cricket Association President's XI
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
ODIs
16
11
2
218
61*
24.22
363
60.05
0
1
16
3
6
0
First-class
78
129
17
5153
228*
46.00
13
23
60
0
List A
114
99
13
3236
110*
37.62
9
20
39
0
Twenty20
16
14
3
365
71*
33.18
293
124.57
0
3
26
16
2
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
ODIs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
78
4112
1859
51
4/34
36.45
2.71
80.6
0
0
List A
114
2935
2383
51
5/20
5/20
46.72
4.87
57.5
0
1
0
Twenty20
16
11
168
239
4
2/23
2/23
59.75
8.53
42.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
ODI debut
Sri Lanka v India at Dambulla, Jul 30, 2005 scorecard
Last ODI
West Indies v India at Basseterre, May 23, 2006 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut
1998/99
Last First-class
Maharashtra v Karnataka at Ratnagiri, Dec 25-28, 2007 scorecard
List A debut
1998/99
Last List A
South Zone v West Zone at Bangalore, Mar 26, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Andhra v Tamil Nadu at Visakhapatnam, Apr 3, 2007 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Deccan Chargers v Chennai Super Kings at Hyderabad (Decc), May 27, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Those who have seen him on the telly can say Venugopal Rao has done nothing to shatter the earth. But ask Matt Prior, Simon Jones, and Sajid Mahmood, and they will tell you 500 is not a safe target in the fourth innings of a four-day match when Venugopal is around. Two days before his 22nd birthday, he shot into national contention with an unbeaten 228 for South Zone to help them chase down England A's target of 501, the fourth-highest successful first-class chase. Venugopal had earlier been part of the Indian team that won the Under-19 World Cup in 2002. Prolific run-getting in domestic matches meant he was not far from national selection. Once into the national ODI team, Venugopal has not been quite at home amid the baseballesque hitting on flat subcontinent tracks. He has shown shades of the early Rahul Dravid and Robin Singh. His only half-century was a stodgy unbeaten 61 off 93 balls against Pakistan. With the team management open-minded about trying out a wide pool of talent, Venugopal is still very much in the reckoning despite an ordinary start to his international career. What's more, he has been captaining the A sides and Board Presidents' XIs.
Sidharth Monga (July 2006)
