Who Is Anshul Kamboj? All You Need To Know About India's 318th Test Cricketer
Anshul Kamboj is making his international debut for India in Manchester. The 24-year-old fast bowler from Karnal has replaced Akash Deep in the playing XI.
24-year-old Anshul Kamboj, who was added to India's Test squad for the last two matches of the ongoing series against England, is making his debut for India on Wednesday (July 23) in Manchester. The right-arm medium pacer from Karnal has replaced Akash Deep in the playing XI for the Manchester Test.
Anshul, who made headlines for taking all 10 wickets in an innings of a Ranji Trophy match for Haryana last year against Kerala in Rohtak, is the 318th cricketer to play Test cricket for India.
He has 79 wickets to his name in 24 first-class matches played so far.
He played his last competitive match for India A against England Lions in Northampton from June 6 to 9, 2025, and picked up two wickets in each innings, apart from scoring an unbeaten 51 runs with the bat in the second innings of the drawn match.
In the IPL, Kamboj plays for Chennai Super Kings. He was signed for Rs 3.40 crore by the Chennai-based franchise in the mega auction last year. He made his CSK debut against the Kolkata Knight Riders in Chennai on April 11, 2025, and picked up one wicket. Overall, he finished the 2025 season with eight wickets in eight matches for the MS Dhoni-led side.
Apart from CSK, Anshul played three matches for Mumbai Indians in IPL 2024 and picked up two wickets.
Kamboj's record in first-class cricket
Anshul made his first-class debut for Haryana against Tripura at Palam A Stadium in Delhi on February 17, 2022. In that fixture, he scored 29 runs from 28 balls with the help of three sixes as a No. 9 batter and bowled 29 overs but failed to take any wicket.
In his next Ranji Trophy match, which was played between Haryana and Punjab at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, Kamboj dismissed Prabhsimran Singh for a golden duck on the first ball of the match and finished with figures of 2/116 in 30 overs in the first innings. He scored 25 and 24 runs with the bat but failed to prevent his side from going down by 10 wickets.
In the last three years, Kamboj has played a total of 24 matches in first-class cricket and dismissed a total of 79 batters in addition to scoring 486 runs with the bat. His career-best score is 51 not out, which he made against England Lions in the last match, and he has two five-wicket hauls to his name.
In the 2024 edition of the Duleep Trophy, Kamboj played three matches for India C and dismissed 16 batters.
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