Shyam Kumar (born M. Shyam Kumar) was an Indian

cricket 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 str ...

er. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

. He was born in

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. Kumar made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1985-86 Ranji Trophy season, against

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. From the lower order, he scored a single run in the first innings in which he batted, and a duck in the second. Kumar took a single wicket from nine overs of bowling.

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