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Full name Thirunavukkarasu Kumaran
Born December 30, 1975, Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu
Current age 32 years 285 days
Major teams India,Chennai Superstars,ICL India XI,Tamil Nadu
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
ODIs
8
3
0
19
8
6.33
27
70.37
0
0
2
0
3
0
First-class
31
32
9
422
106
18.34
1
0
13
0
List A
40
19
10
124
30*
13.77
0
0
12
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
ODIs
8
8
378
348
9
3/24
3/24
38.66
5.52
42.0
0
0
0
First-class
31
4907
2510
98
6/39
25.61
3.06
50.0
5
1
List A
40
1900
1583
57
5/37
5/37
27.77
4.99
33.3
1
1
0
Career statistics
ODI debut
India v New Zealand at Guwahati, Nov 14, 1999 scorecard
The Indian selectors have quite often been notorious in curbing the careers of budding pace bowlers with their policy of hiring and firing. The list is long and one of them was Thirunavakarasu Kumaran.`Kenny' as he is known to close friends, was selected for the national side largely on the basis of one performance - a ten-wicket haul in the Irani Trophy match against Karnataka at Bangalore at the break of the 1999-2000 season. He was the surprise choice for the tour of Australia and to give him some international experience prior to the tour, he was played in the one day internationals against New Zealand. Kumaran did well enough to show that he merited selection and on the tour of Australia, he performed beyond expectations in the first-class games prior to the first Test. It was taken for granted that he would be in the side but Agarkar was preferred. He took this disappointment in his stride but another one followed when he was one of five players to be replaced for the Carlton & United one-day series.
A product of the MRF Pace Foundation in Chennai, Kumaran received personal training from Dennis Lillee and has also benefited from a stint at the Australian Academy in Adelaide. He was mentally strong, but never really recovered from the setback and within a year he had disappeared from the game.
Partab Ramchand
