Vivek Agarwal (3 January 1962 – 26 April 1993) was an Indian

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er. He was a right-handed batsman who played for

Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land a ...

. He was born in

Meerut Meerut (, IAST: ''Meraṭh'') is a city in Meerut district of the western part of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city lies northeast of the national capital New Delhi, within the National Capital Region and west of the state capital ...

(Uttar Pradesh). Agarwal made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1982–83 season, against

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. From the opening order, he scored 18 runs in the first innings in which he batted, and a duck in the second. He worked as a

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for

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and was on board Flight 491 which crashed on 26 April 1993, after take-off from

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. He was one of 55 people who died in the accident.

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