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Full name Laxmi Ratan Shukla
Born May 6, 1981, Howrah (now Haora), Bengal
Current age 27 years 114 days
Major teams India,Bengal,Kolkata Knight Riders
Also known as Bittu
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
3
2
0
18
13
9.00
19
94.73
0
0
1
0
1
0
First-class
86
119
11
3415
141
31.62
2
24
46
0
List A
90
75
13
2008
136
32.38
2
11
37
0
Twenty20
20
19
7
336
76
28.00
254
132.28
0
1
28
10
5
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
ODIs
3
3
114
94
1
1/25
1/25
94.00
4.94
114.0
0
0
0
First-class
86
7747
3806
102
6/86
37.31
2.94
75.9
2
0
List A
90
2963
2191
83
4/13
4/13
26.39
4.43
35.6
4
0
0
Twenty20
20
16
186
265
14
3/6
3/6
18.92
8.54
13.2
0
0
0
Career statistics
ODI debut
India v Sri Lanka at Nagpur, Mar 22, 1999 scorecard
Last ODI
India v West Indies at Singapore, Sep 5, 1999 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut
1997/98
Last First-class
Bengal v Andhra at Kolkata, Dec 25-27, 2007 scorecard
List A debut
1998/99
Last List A
Bengal v Saurashtra at Visakhapatnam, Apr 10, 2008 scorecard
Kolkata Knight Riders v Kings XI Punjab at Kolkata, May 25, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Laxmi Ratan Shukla made his Ranji Trophy debut for Bengal in the 1997-98 season against Maharashtra. Still in his teens, he rose into prominence soon and made the Indian under-19 team for the MTN Youth World Cup in South Africa in 1998. On his return, he captured the selectors' imagination with his match winning century as an opener for Bengal in the Wills Trophy semi-final against Delhi the next season. But he had a rude awakening to the realities of international
cricket when he was plundered for 32 runs in the four overs he bowled at the Sri Lankans on his debut in the Pepsi Cup later that same season. He put up a marginally better performance in his next match against West Indies in the Coca-Cola Singapore Challenge. But after that he has been ignored by the selectors. In early 2000, Shukla was picked as a trainee for the National
Cricket Academy. But he had to leave due to injuries. A good middle-order bat and a steady medium-pace bowler, he still has youth in his favour as he will undoubtedly make amends and try and force his way back into the national side. Natarajan Sriram
