The Indian international cricketer Tilak Varma was born on November 8, 2002. He is a left-handed batsman and a part-time off-spin bowler. Varma is a member of the Indian national cricket team. In a match against the West Indies on August 3, 2023, he made his debut for India in an international competition. In domestic cricket, he is a member of the Hyderabad team, while in the Indian Premier League (IPL), he is a member of the Mumbai Indians. Throughout the 2023 Asia Cup, he was a member of the Indian team that triumphed.
The coach Salim Bayash saw Tilak Varma playing tennis ball cricket when he was 11 years old. Tilak Varma had established an early interest in cricket. During his time at the Legal Cricket Academy in Lingampally, Bayash took him under his wing and provided him with training. Up until the time when Varma’s family moved closer to the academy, Bayash would use his scooter to transport Varma to and from his school. Bayash would make the trip, which was more than forty kilometers in length each way.
Varma attended Crescent Model English School in Hyderabad for his early schooling before moving to Hyderabad. At the moment, he is attending Andhra University to get a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. He finished his secondary education at Lepakshi Junior College, which is located in Hyderabad. In the Ranji Trophy for the 2018–19 season, which took place on December 30, 2018, he made his first-class team debut for Hyderabad.
Tilak Varma Biography
| Name | Tilak Varma |
| Full Name | Namboori Thakur Tilak Varma |
| Date of Birth | 8 November 2002 |
| Place of Birth | Hyderabad, Telangana, India |
| Other Names | NA |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Father’s Name | Namboori Nagaraju |
| Mother’s Name | Gayatri Devi |
| Siblings | NA |
| Spouse | NA |
| Marriage Date | NA |
| Children | NA |
| Role | Batting |
| Batting | Left-handed |
| Bowling | Right-arm Spin |
| ODI Debut | 15 September 2023 vs. Bangladesh |
| Test Debut | NA |
| Favourite Food | NA |
| Favourite Actor | NA |
| Favourite Actress | NA |
| Favourite Colour | Blue |
| Retirement | Still Playing |
In the competition, he played seven matches and scored 215 runs with a strike rate of 147.26 percentage points. On February 28, 2019, he made his debut for Hyderabad in the Twenty20 competition, which was part of the 2018–19 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. On September 28, 2019, he made his debut in the List A competition for Hyderabad, which was part of the 2019–20 Vijay Hazare Trophy. During the competition, he not only got four wickets but also scored 180 runs in five games.
The announcement that he will be a part of India’s team for the Under-19 Cricket World Cup in 2020 came in December 2019. Although he participated in six games throughout the tournament, he was only able to score 86 runs. The Mumbai Indians were the ones who purchased him during the auction for the 2022 Indian Premier League season, which took place in February of that year. His purchase by Mumbai Indians was for 1.7 crore rupees, which was the basic price of 20 lakh rupees.
He faced Rajasthan Royals in the second match of the league, which took place at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. He scored 61 runs off of 33 balls. In the inaugural match of the 2023 Indian Premier League, which took place in April 2023, he hit an 84 off of 46 balls against Royal Challengers Bangalore when they were playing. In the playoff encounter against Gujarat Titans, he scored 43 runs off of only 14 balls with very little effort. During the tour to the West Indies in July 2023, he received his first call-up to the Indian cricket team for the Twenty20 International series.
He played his first Twenty20 International on August 3, 2023, which was the opening match of the series. Throughout the same match, he managed to grab two catches and score the highest score for India, which was 39, off of only 22 deliveries. When he was playing against the West Indies in the second Twenty20 encounter of the year 2023, he scored his maiden fifty of his international career on August 6th. After Rohit Sharma, he became the second youngest Indian player to reach fifty runs in a Twenty20 International. Additionally, throughout that trip, he was the player that scored the most runs for the squad.
Batting & Fielding Stats
| YEAR | MAT | NO | RUNS | HS | AVG | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4S | 6S | CT | ST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | 29 | 6 | 867 | 84* | 37.70 | 599 | 144.74 | 0 | 4 | 59 | 48 | 18 | 0 |
| 2024 | 4 | 0 | 127 | 64 | 31.75 | 87 | 145.98 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 0 |
| 2023 | 11 | 3 | 343 | 84* | 42.88 | 209 | 164.11 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 23 | 4 | 0 |
| 2022 | 14 | 3 | 397 | 61 | 36.09 | 303 | 131.02 | 0 | 2 | 29 | 16 | 10 | 0 |
Bowling
| YEAR | MAT | BALLS | RUNS | WKTS | BBM | AVE | ECON | SR | 4W | 5W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career | 29 | 18 | 20 | 0 | 0/6 | – | 6.67 | – | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0/7 | – | 7.00 | – | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 0 | 0/6 | – | 6.50 | – | 0 | 0 |
At the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, the big-hitting batter for the Mumbai Indians, Tim David, expressed his admiration for the performance of his teammate Tilak Varma, who scored an outstanding 64 off of 34 balls at his home ground. This played a significant role in keeping the team in the hunt while they chased 278 runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad. However, the visitors were ultimately unsuccessful after falling short by 31 runs.
In the course of a trade between the two clubs, Pandya returned to his previous franchise after having previously played for Gujarat Titans (GT) in November of the previous year. Over two years, the great all-rounder was a member of GT, where he led the team to victory in the lucrative league with extraordinary skill. In the first season of GT’s existence, which took place in 2022, Hardik put the team on the path to success, and they ended up winning the coveted trophy.
Chennai Super Kings (CSK), the reigning champions of the Indian Premier League (IPL), will face Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in a South Indian derby at MA Chidambaram Stadium on March 22. This match will mark the beginning of the 17th season of the IPL.In an exciting matchup that will take place on March 24 in Ahmedabad, the Gujarat Titans, who finished in second place the previous year, and the Mumbai Indians, who have won five titles together, will compete against each other.
Following two successful seasons with GT, star all-rounder Pandya has moved to his previous side, MI, which has resulted in a significant increase in the amount of excitement around the match. When it comes to GT, Shubman Gill has assumed the role of captain. An acquaintance from Varma’s boyhood notified him of his selection to the Indian Twenty20 squad on Wednesday evening. To break the news to his parents, he would then make a video call to them.
