Tilak Varma

Tilak Varma is an Indian International cricketer who plays as a left-handed batsman and part time off spin bowler. He made his International debut for India on 3 August 2023 against the West Indies. He plays for Hyderabad in domestic cricket and Mumbai in the Indian Premier League.

He made his first-class debut for Hyderabad in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy on 30 December 2018. In the tournament, he scored 215 runs in seven matches. He made his Twenty20 debut for Hyderabad in the 2018–19 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on 28 February 2019. He made his List A debut on 28 September 2019, for Hyderabad in the 2019–20 Vijay Hazare Trophy. During the tournament, he scored 180 runs in 5 games and also took 4 wickets. In December 2019, he was named in India's squad for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He played 6 games in the competition and managed to score only 86 runs.

In February 2022, he was bought by the Mumbai franchise in the auction for the 2022 Indian Premier League tournament. The base price was Rs. 20 lakh and he was bought at Rs. 1.7 crore. In the second match of the league, he scored a 33-ball-61 against Rajasthan at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. In April 2023, he scored an 84 off 46 balls against Bangalore in their first match of the 2023 Indian Premier League. In the playoff match against Gujarat, he scored 43 runs off just 14 balls.

In July 2023, he got his maiden call-up for the Indian cricket team for the T20I series on the tour of the West Indies. He made his T20I debut on 3 August 2023 in the first match of the series. He top-scored for India with 39 off just 22 deliveries. On 6 August 2023, he made the first fifty of his international career in the second T20 match played against the West Indies. He became the second youngest Indian to score 50 in Men's T20I after Rohit Sharma. Also, he was the highest run scorer for the team in that tour.
He had also been named in the Indian squads for the three-match T20I tour of Ireland and the Asian Games to be held in Hangzhou, China. He made his ODI debut on 15 September 2023 against Bangladesh in the 2023 Asia Cup.