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Full name Vikram Rathour
Born March 26, 1969, Jullundur (now Jalandhar), Punjab
Current age 39 years 164 days
Major teams India,Himachal Pradesh,Punjab
Batting style Right-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
6
10
0
131
44
13.10
383
34.20
0
0
13
0
12
0
ODIs
7
7
0
193
54
27.57
331
58.30
0
2
16
1
4
0
First-class
146
239
8
11473
254
49.66
33
49
187
3
List A
99
98
5
3161
146
33.98
7
14
61
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ODIs
7
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
146
30
31
0
-
-
-
6.20
-
0
0
0
List A
99
1
4
0
-
-
-
24.00
-
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
England v India at Birmingham, Jun 6-9, 1996 scorecard
Last Test
South Africa v India at Johannesburg, Jan 16-20, 1997 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
India v Pakistan at Sharjah, Apr 15, 1996 scorecard
Last ODI
Zimbabwe v India at Bulawayo, Feb 15, 1997 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1988/89 - 2002/03
List A span
1993/94 - 2002/03
Profile
Vikram Rathour never looked an assuring presence in the six Tests where he opened the batting. This was a pity really because he appeared to be a fine prospect early in his career. Plucky without being dour, and a fluent driver of the ball, the bearded Rathour was the bulwark of Punjab's batting through the early nineties. Among the chosen few to visit England in 1996, he made tons of runs in the tour games (759 at 58.38 to be precise), including an unlaboured 165 against Worcestershire as well as a fifty in the third ODI at Old Trafford. But he flopped in the Tests with a highest of 20 in four innings, the awayswinging ball invariably edged to the slips exposing limitations in his technique.
A further chance in the one-off Test against Australia followed, with little change in fortune, and Rathour found himself banished for the home series against the South Africans. With none of the opening combinations tested here clicking, Rathour found himself flying off to South Africa for the return series. The same pattern on the English tour was re-enacted as Rathour made three fifties and a hundred in the two provincial games, but he came a cropper against Allan Donald in the two Tests he played - although a useful 44 at the Wanderers helped India to their highest opening stand of the series (90). There ended his international career and despite continuing to score at will in the domestic arena, he was never again considered. Sankhya Krishnan
