{"id":339760,"date":"2026-05-24T04:21:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=339760"},"modified":"2026-05-24T04:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:51:25","slug":"former-india-batter-vijay-shankar-retires-from-ipl-and-domestic-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/former-india-batter-vijay-shankar-retires-from-ipl-and-domestic-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Former India batter Vijay Shankar retires from IPL and domestic cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vijay Shankar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Former <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Chennai Super Kings<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and Team India all-rounder <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Vijay Shankar<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> announced his retirement from the IPL and domestic cricket on Friday, May 22. Nonetheless, in a protracted message shared on social media, he said that he&#8217;ll proceed playing cricket in other formats or leagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Shankar represented India in 21 white-ball matches between 2018 and 2019, including 12 ODIs and 9 T20Is. The most important moment of his international profession got here when he was picked in India\u2019s squad for the 2019 ODI World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He played three matches within the tournament, scoring 58 runs at a mean of 29 and taking two wickets at a mean of 11. Although the 35-year-old never scored a fifty for India in limited-overs cricket, he ended his international profession with decent averages of 31.85 in ODIs and 25.25 in T20Is.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d7yxU1L70s\">pic.twitter.com\/d7yxU1L70s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vijay Shankar (@vijayshankar260) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vijayshankar260\/status\/2057802762969329851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Furthermore, <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Vijay Shankar<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> was one in every of the consistent performers in Indian domestic cricket. He had impressive batting averages of 46.73 in first-class cricket and 34.87 in List A matches. Along along with his batting, he also took 116 wickets in 189 domestic matches across each formats.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Vijay Shankar has experienced the most important glory within the IPL<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Vijay Shankar<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> has already experienced success within the IPL, as he was a part of the title-winning <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Gujarat Titans<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> squad in 2022. Although he played only 4 matches that season, he performed significantly better in the following edition when GT finished as runners-up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In IPL 2023, Shankar scored greater than 300 runs in a season for the primary time in his profession. He made 301 runs in 14 matches at a mean of 37.62 and a powerful strike rate of 160.10. The Tamil Nadu cricketer also had two spells along with his home team, <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Chennai Super Kings<\/span><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Vijay Shankar<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> played his last IPL matches for <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Chennai Super Kings<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> last yr, where he scored runs at a mean of 39.33 and a strike rate near 130 in six games. Other than <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Gujarat Titans<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and CSK, Shankar also represented <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Sunrisers Hyderabad<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Delhi Capitals<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> during his IPL profession. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Overall, he scored 1,233 runs in 78 IPL matches at a mean of 26.23 and a strike rate of 129.78. He also contributed with the ball, taking nine wickets in his 12-year IPL profession while maintaining a solid economy rate of 8.67.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Get the newest cricket news here, like us on <a href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/cricfitupdate?wtsid=rdr_0r9TyTtGMzhJUSzAh\">Facebook<\/a>, and follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricFit\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/cricfit?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">Instagram <\/a>for more such updates.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vijay Shankar Former Chennai Super Kings and Team India all-rounder Vijay Shankar announced his retirement from the IPL and domestic cricket on Friday, May 22. Nonetheless, in a protracted message shared on social media, he said that he&#8217;ll proceed playing cricket in other formats or leagues. Shankar represented India in 21 white-ball matches between 2018 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":339761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20675],"tags":[20386,5624,9402,56,9843,5354,20794,9169],"class_list":["post-339760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-batter","tag-cricket","tag-domestic","tag-india","tag-ipl","tag-retires","tag-shankar","tag-vijay"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339763,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339760\/revisions\/339763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}