Ex-UP Player Becomes Oman Captain, Five Years After Leaving India

Summary

Vinayak Shukla, a wicketkeeper batter from Uttar Pradesh, has been appointed captain of the Oman men's cricket team, succeeding Jatinder Singh as the side's new skipper. The thirty-two-year-old, who moved to Oman in two thousand twenty-one, has established himself as Oman's first choice wicketkeeper and has impressed with his aggressive middle order batting. He has featured in fifteen one-day internationals and twenty-three twenty-twenty internationals for Oman, scoring three hundred twelve runs and four hundred forty-seven runs respectively.