Rakesh Parikh

Parikh played as a right-handed opening batsman and appeared in 52 first-class and 5 List A matches. He scored more than 3700 first-class runs at an average of over 45 and nine hundreds, in a career lasted for 13 seasons starting from 1983–84 at the age of 21. He was the second-highest run-getter of the 1989–90 Ranji Trophy in which he scored 716 runs in 6 games at an average of 89.50 with three centuries.^[1] He also scored his personal best 218 in the same season, playing for West Zone against South Zone in the Duleep Trophy.^[2]

Parikh worked with the Baroda Cricket Association (BCA) after retirement. He was a member of Indian junior team selection committee from 2006 to 2008. He was on the selection committee that selected Virat Kohli as the Indian captain for the 2008 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.^[3] He became the junior team selector for the second time in November 2015, before which he was the vice-president of BCA.^[4] He also worked on the National Cricket Academy Board appointed by the BCCI. Parikh was the Indian team manager on its Sri Lankan tour in August 2015.^[5]

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