Priyank Kiritbhai Panchal (born 9 April 1990) is an Indian domestic

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er. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who plays for

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. He was born in

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Panchal made his first cricketing appearance for the Under-15s in the 2003–04 Polly Umrigar Trophy, in which he played for two seasons. He stepped up to the Under-17s team, for whom, in his last fixture of the 2005–06 Vijay Merchant Trophy, he scored a century. The following season, he played in both the limited overs competition and the three-day game. On 27 February 2008, he made his List-A debut against Maharashtra in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, playing for Gujarat, where he scored 123 runs in 115 balls with the help of 17 fours and 1 six. Panchal made his first-class debut in the

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competition the following season, against Saurashtra, in a game which Gujarat won by an innings margin. In November 2016, Panchal became first player to score a triple century for Gujarat. The following month, he became the first player for Gujarat to score 1,000 runs in a single

season. He finished the

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season with the most runs in the competition, with a total of 1,310 from ten matches and seventeen innings. He was the leading run-scorer for Gujarat in the

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, with 542 runs in seven matches. In July 2018, he was named in the squad for India Green for the

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. He was also the leading run-scorer for Gujarat in the

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, with 367 runs in eight matches. He was the leading run-scorer for Gujarat in the group-stage of the

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, with 898 runs in nine matches. He finished the tournament with 898 runs in nine matches. In August 2019, he was named as the captain of the India Red team for the 2019–20 Duleep Trophy. In October 2019, he was named in India B's squad for the

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. In January 2021, he was named as one of five standby players in India's

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squad for their series against England. In November 2021, he was named as captain of the India A team for their tour of South Africa. In December 2021, he was named in India's squad for Test series versus South Africa, replacing

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, who was suffering from

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. In February 2022, he was named in India's Test squad for their series against Sri Lanka.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Panchal, Priyank 1990 births Living people Indian cricketers Gujarat cricketers India Green cricketers India Red cricketers Gujarati people Cricketers from Ahmedabad

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