Smaran Ravichandran

Some Lesser Known Facts About Smaran Ravichandran

• Smaran Ravichandran was a very naughty child. So, his parents sent him to learn cricket at the local academy, Vultures Cricket Club.

• As a kid, he liked watching left-handed batsmen like Kumar Sangakkara and Michael Hussey play.

• He started cricket training at the age of 7 and was a very impatient batsman when he started.

• In a 2018 Under-16 KSCA inter-club tournament, he scored a hundred, a double century, and a triple hundred.

  

• When he became the captain of the Karnataka Under-16 team, he scored 167 runs against Andhra Pradesh, 203 runs not out against Goa and 150 runs not out against Puducherry.

• In 2019, he was a member of the squad chosen by BCCI to train at the U-19 boys’ camps held at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru.

• He scored 829 runs in the 2023-2024 season, helping the Karnataka Under-23 team to win their first CK Nayudu Trophy.

• In the 2024 Maharaja T20 Trophy, he represented Gulbarga Mystics and scored 302 runs at an average of 43.14 and a strike rate of 145.19.

  

• In the 2025 Indian Premier League (IPL) auction, he went unsold for his base price of Rs 30 lakhs.

• On 15 January 2025, he scored 76 runs in 94 deliveries helping Karnataka defeat Haryana and enter the 2024-2025 Vijay Hazare Trophy final.

• The Crease Cricket agency manages him.

• He started working out at the Invictus Performance Lab in 2020 which helped him build power to his sixes.