Vikram Atri (born 9 March 1983) is an English
first-class cricketer. Atri is a right-handed
batsman who bowls right-arm
off break. He was born at
Hull
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,
Yorkshire.
Atri made his only appearance in
List A cricket for the
Nottinghamshire Cricket Board against
Bedfordshire in the
2001 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy
The 2001 Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 1 May and 1 September 2001. It was the first Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy following its change of name from the NatWest Tro ...
at
Wardown Park,
Luton, with the Board losing by 3 wickets. In his only List-A match he was dismissed for a
duck.
Atri made his
first-class debut for
Nottinghamshire against
West Indies A in 2002, and, batting as an opener, made a score of 98 against bowling that included past and future Test players
Marlon Black
Marlon Ian Black (born 7 June 1975, Trinidad and Tobago) is a former West Indian cricketer who played in six Tests and five ODIs, debuting in 2000.
He played his last international in 2002 due largely to an incident where he was attacked and ba ...
and
Tino Best. ''
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' reported that "the calm and compact Vikram Atri caught the eye, before he trudged off dejectedly, two shy of a century in his maiden first-class knock". Atri's innings was characterised as "patient" and "dogged" in another report, which noted, however, nine "graceful" boundaries on the first day alone, when rain curtailed play. In the event, Atri played only two further first-class matches for Nottinghamshire, both of them in the 2003
County Championship against
Middlesex and
Kent. In 2003, he made his first-class debut for
Loughborough UCCE against
Somerset and from 2003 to 2005, he represented Loughborough UCCE in nine first-class matches, the last of which came against
Worcestershire.
First-Class Matches played by Vikram Atri
/ref> In his combined total of 12 first-class matches, he scored 548 runs at a batting average of 28.84, with four half centuries, although he never surpassed his 98 on debut. In the field he took 8 catches
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In 2004, Atri made his Minor Counties Championship
The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national cou ...
debut for Lincolnshire against Norfolk. He played for Lincolnshire until 2013.
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1983 births
Living people
British sportspeople of Indian descent
British Asian cricketers
English people of Indian descent
English cricketers
Nottinghamshire cricketers
Nottinghamshire Cricket Board cricketers
Loughborough MCCU cricketers
Lincolnshire cricketers
Cricketers from Kingston upon Hull
English cricketers of the 21st century