Akshay Karnewar is a two-way cricketer who plays for the Vidarbha team in the domestic circuit. He represents his team in First Class and List-A games. He also plays Twenty20 and gained fame for his record-breaking completion: bowling a full quota of four overs without any runs and taking two wickets.
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Akshay Karnewar was born on Monday, October 12, 1992 (age 29 years; as of 2021) in Wagoli, Maharashtra. His zodiac sign is Libra. He started playing cricket at the age of six and at the age of 13 was noticed by his coach Balu Navghare, who suggested that he take up left-arm spin bowling instead of right-arm. A few years later, he played in the DY Patil T20 League in Mumbai and then did trials for the Rajasthan Royals team, where he was not selected.
Akshay Karnevar in 2014
Gradually, in December 2015, he appeared in List-A cricket and later in first-class cricket for the Vidarbha team. In 2016, he was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL for INR 10 lakhs.
Akshay Karnewar for Royal Challengers Bangalore
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′ 9″
Hair color: natural black
Eye color: dark brown
family
Akshay Karnewar belongs to a Maharashtrian family.
parents and siblings
His father’s name is Kishan Karnewar and he is a retired driver from Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation.
wife
Akshay Karnewar with his wife
Address
Nagpur, Maharashtra
Career
He played his first major tournament on 10 December 2015 in a List-A game against Vidarbha against the Odisha team in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. He not only impressed the critics with his two wickets but also scored 72 valuable runs. He became the leader of Vidarbha (16) in this tournament. Following this series, he took seven wickets in nine games in the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 (SMAT) tournament. His next debut match was a Twenty20 match against Gujarat on 3 January 2016 at the Vidarbha Cricket Stadium in Nagpur (Maharashtra). Gujarat batted first and posted 174 runs on the board. In reply, Vidarbha could only score 114 runs and lost the match by 60 runs. Akshay was a costly side in two overs where he conceded 26 runs without a wicket. Soon after, on 27 October 2016, he made his first-class debut against Jharkhand in a Ranji Trophy game. In this match he took two wickets and scored 39 runs. His first 5-wicket haul was against Punjab in the 2017-18 Ranji season. He then played a warm-up game against Australia for the Council President’s XI in the same year, where he took one wicket of Travis Head and conceded 59 runs in six overs.
Akshay Karnewar bowling left handed against Australia
Akshay Karnewar right arm bowling
His maiden century in domestic cricket came on 14 February 2019 for the Iran Trophy team against the Rest of India (ROI), helping his team win the coveted title for the second time in a row.
Vidarbha’s Akshay Karnewar is a rare cricketer who bowls his left arm and right arm in the same action.
During the Vidarbha & Rest of India match in which Akshay was declared the man of the match
Classic!! pic.twitter.com/DbJEnRJy7q
— Nigel D’Souza (@Nigel__DSouza) February 21, 2019
Historical Twenty20 spells
On 8 November 2021, he entered the record books with a full quota of four overs in Syed Mushtaq Ali’s match against Manipur. Vidarbha posted 222 runs on the board with the help of Jitesh Sharma and Apoorv Wankhede. Manipur, on the other hand, looked off the track throughout the chase and finished with 55 runs in 17 overs. Akshay was effectively taken off the bowling after bowling three consecutive maidens. When he returned, he hit a six and ended his spell in four overs with zero runs for two wickets. This is the first full quota T20 spell where a bowler has not conceded a single run in men’s cricket.
Akshay Karnewar bowling against Manipur
After that he spoke to the media.
“It’s unbelievable. Not conceding a single run in the whole match is extraordinary and I feel good.
Former Vidarbha coach Sulashan Kulkarni praised his efforts and said that
“He is a big performance player. He showed his ability with the bat in the second Ranji final at Vidarbha. Then I scored 100 in the Irani Cup and now I have scored another big performance.
A new chapter in his record books awaited the next day too when he took a hat-trick in the last two balls of the eighth over and the first ball of the tenth over against Sikkim. Vidarbha posted 205 runs on the board. Sikkim managed only 75 runs in 20 overs after losing eight wickets. Akshay ended his spell with five runs in four overs and took four wickets. Interestingly, two of these dismissals were caught by the bowler and one was a hit wicket. Ajith Karthik, captain Kranti Kumar, wicketkeeper Ashish Thapa and Nilesh Lamichani were his victims.
Akshay Karnewar bowling against Sikkim
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Facts/Trivia
- In an interview with a local news channel, he talked about his journey in two-way bowling and said that:
“When I was 13 years old, my coach Balu Navghare asked me if I can bowl with my left hand. Since then I have been using both arms. My intention is always to take wickets. I first observe how the batsmen are playing and then decide whether I really need to use both hands to take his wicket. Sometimes I don’t need it.”
he also said
“I usually spin the bowl. My coach told me to bowl with my left hand. Due to the lack of left arm in the team, I played a lot and succeeded. But now I can play the bowl with both hands. Not only that, I can do a lot with both hands.”
- His bowling in the warm-up against Australia so impressed Australian all-rounder Marcus Stoinis that he remarked:
“I actually didn’t know what the referee was trying to say. He was trying to say, “He’s going to take your left arm.” So that’s brilliant of him. I have never seen this before. “
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