Picture by Abhishek Chinnappa/Getty Images. Yorkshire’s new signing celebrates the IPL title success for his Royal Challengers Bangalore side in June.
Twenty one-time Test batter Mayank Agarwal arrives at Headingley on a short-term overseas deal having been there, done it and bought the t-shirt.
Aged 34, Agarwal, an opener by trade, will add valuable experience to Yorkshire’s top order for the remaining three Rothesay County Championship matches of the summer.
Agarwal is approaching both 20,000 career runs, and his debut for the White Rose against Somerset at Taunton will be the 450th all-format appearance of a senior career which started back in 2010.
The right-hander has scored 8,050 first-class runs at an average of 43.98, a haul which includes 1,488 runs in Test cricket between 2018 and 2022.
He has gone to or beyond 100 on 18 occasions in first-class cricket and four times in Tests.
He has a career best 304 not out for Karnataka to his name – in the Ranji Trophy in 2017 – and has five further double centuries to his name. Two of those came in Test Matches.
Bangalore-born, he is the captain of his home state Karnataka and plays in the Indian Premier League for the Royal Challengers Bangalore.
He was part of the team which won the franchise’s first IPL title at the start of June, alongside names such as Virat Kohli, Liam Livingstone and Phil Salt.
Amongst his career highlights will surely be making his Test Match debut against Australia at the MCG in late 2018, an India win to which he contributed scores of 76 and 42.
Agarwal is a versatile batter who can play the patience game, as he showed for example in that debut performance in the Boxing Day fixture, or he can take a bowling attack apart.
He takes Yorkshire’s overseas players to seven for the 2025 season, following on from Jordan Buckingham, Imam-Ul-Haq, Will O’Rourke, Ben Sears, Abdullah Shafique and Will Sutherland.
Picture by Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images. Mayank Agrawal bats against Australia in Brisbane in January 2021.
