Meet Anshul Kamboj? 24-Year-Old Haryana Pacer Who Is Added To India's Test Squad
24-year-old Anshul Kamboj has 79 wickets to his name in 24 first-class matches played so far. He was part of the CSK squad in IPL 2025 and picked up 8 wickets in 8 matches.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Sunday (July 20) added Anshul Kamboj to India's Test squad for the last two matches of the ongoing five-match series against England. The 24-year-old fast bowler from Haryana has joined the Test squad in Manchester and is in line to make his red-ball debut as well at the iconic Old Trafford Stadium on Wednesday (July 23).
Anshul has never played at the highest level for India before but played two red-ball matches for India A against England Lions last month. In those two matches he impressed with his bowling as well as batting.
The right-arm medium pacer from Haryana dismissed one England Lions batter in the first four-day match and picked up two wickets each in both innings of the second unofficial Test played from July 6 to 9 in Northampton.
In the second unofficial Test, Anshul scored 51 not out after coming out to bat at No. 9 in the second innings and added 149 runs for the ninth wicket with Tanush Kotian.
Kamboj's record in first-class cricket
Anshul made his first-class debut for Haryana against Tripura at Palam A Stadium in Delhi on February 17, 2022. In that fixture, he scored 29 runs from 28 balls with the help of three sixes as a No. 9 batter and bowled 29 overs but failed to take any wicket.
In his next Ranji Trophy match, which was played between Haryana and Punjab at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, Kamboj dismissed Prabhsimran Singh for a golden duck on the first ball of the match and finished with figures of 2/116 in 30 overs in the first innings. He scored 25 and 24 runs with the bat but failed to prevent his side from going down by 10 wickets.
In the last three years, Kamboj has played a total of 24 matches in first-class cricket and dismissed a total of 79 batters in addition to scoring 486 runs with the bat. His career-best score is 51 not out, which he made against England Lions in the last match, and he has two five-wicket hauls to his name.
Anshul's best performance in red-ball cricket is 10 wickets for 49 runs. During the Ranji Trophy 2024-25 Elite Group C match played between Haryana and Kerala at Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium in Rohtak from November 13 to 16 in 2024, Anshul dismissed all 10 Kerala batters in the first innings. He bowled 30.1 overs and picked up 10 wickets for 49 runs.
The Karnal-born cricketer is only the third cricketer after Bengal's Premangsu Chatterjee (1956–57) and Rajasthan's Pradeep Sundaram (1985–86) to take all ten wickets in an innings of a Ranji Trophy match.
In the 2024 edition of the Duleep Trophy, Kamboj played three matches for India C and dismissed 16 batters.
Anshul's record in List A, T20, and IPL.
Kamboj has played 25 List A and 30 T20 matches so far and has 40 and 34 wickets, respectively, to his name. He made his IPL debut for the Mumbai Indians in 2024 and picked up two wickets in three matches.
After being released by MI, Anshul joined Chennai Super Kings for Rs 3.40 crore in the IPL 2025 mega auction. He made his CSK debut against the Kolkata Knight Riders in Chennai on April 11, 2025, and picked up one wicket. Overall, he finished the 2025 season with eight wickets in eight matches for the MS Dhoni-led side.
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