Arun Harinath (born 26 March 1987) is a former English

cricketer Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

, a top-order batsman who played at first-class level for

Surrey Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...

, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC),

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...

and Loughborough UCCE between 2007 and 2018. He was educated at

Tiffin School Tiffin School is a boys' grammar school in Kingston upon Thames, England. It has specialist status in both the performing arts and languages. The school moved from voluntary aided status to become an Academy School on 1 July 2011. Founded in ...

, and then attended

Loughborough University Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university since 1966, but it dates back to 1909, when L ...

. Born to UK-based Sri Lankan parents Malathy Harinath and Harinath Suppaiah, he married Emily Hodgson in 2018, but they separated in 2021. He has a younger brother Muhunthan Harinath. Harinath was part of the

setup from the age of nine, and by 2006 was a regular in the county's Second XI. Despite not having made a first-team appearance for Surrey, in October 2008 he was offered a new two-year contract. He made his first-class debut for Loughborough in April 2007 and his Surrey debut against Gloucestershire in September 2009, playing the last 3 games of the season. He was a regular for the Championship team in 2010 and 2013, playing 12 Championship games in each season but only one game in 2011. He scored over 500 runs in 2010, 2013 and 2015 and scored a total of 6 centuries. During the 2017 season he spent a period on loan to Leicestershire. He rarely played limited-over cricket for Surrey. He played for Sutton Cricket Club in the Surrey Championship. On 8 July 2019, he joined Hampshire on loan for the remainder of the 2019 season. However, he did not play in any first-class or List A matches during the 2019 season, or subsequently, for either Surrey or Hampshire. He retired from cricket for a career in finance in 2019.

Notes

References

* * 1987 births Living people English cricketers Loughborough MCCU cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Alumni of Loughborough University Surrey cricketers Buckinghamshire cricketers Leicestershire cricketers People educated at Tiffin School British people of Indian descent Sportspeople of Indian descent British Asian cricketers People from Sutton, London Cricketers from the London Borough of Sutton 21st-century English cricketers {{england-cricket-bio-1980s-stub