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Murali Vijay (born 1 April 1984) is an Indian international cricketer. He plays as a right-handed opening batsman. He represents Tamil Nadu in first-class cricket and Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Having started playing cricket at the age of 17, Vijay played club cricket in Chennai before he was selected in the Tamil Nadu Under-22 team. He quickly came up the ranks and made his debut for the Tamil Nadu senior team in 2006. He was one of the top run-scorers of the 2006-07 Ranji Trophy, which was his debut first-class tournament. By October 2008, he went on to represent South Zone, India Red and India A, and in November 2008, he was handed his Test debut after regular opener Gautam Gambhir was banned for one match by the ICC. ==Early career== Vijay started playing cricket at the age of 17.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://cricket.yahoo.com/player-profile/Murali-Vijay_4531 )〕 He first played club cricket in Chennai representing Alwarpet in 2003. He was then selected in the Tamil Nadu Under-22 squad for the 2004-05 CK Nayudu Trophy. Tamil Nadu Under-22 won the tournament, but, opening the innings, Vijay averaged just 26.45 in 6 matches.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/7/CK_Nayudu_Trophy_2004-05/Tamil_Nadu_Under-22s_Batting.html )〕 He continued to play club cricket in 2005, before getting selected again in the Tamil Nadu Under-22 squad for the 2005-06 CK Nayudu Trophy. He failed to impress once again, averaging 26.50 in 3 matches.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/7/CK_Nayudu_Trophy_2005-06/Tamil_Nadu_Under-22s_Batting.html )〕 Despite his below-average performances in club cricket and Under-22 tournaments, Vijay was selected in the Tamil Nadu squad for the Ranji One-day Trophy in February 2006. He made his senior cricket debut in Tamil Nadu's last group fixture of the tournament, against Karnataka on 16 February, and scored 17 in that match.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/84/84958.html )〕 He scored 38 in the quarterfinal against Railways who won the match by one run.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/86/86159.html )〕 Vijay rose to prominence during the 2006-07 Ranji Trophy, his debut first-class season, in which he finished as the third highest run-getter of the tournament, only behind Karnataka's Robin Uthappa and Bengal's Manoj Tiwary. At the start of this tournament, he made his first-class debut against Delhi and scored a fifty in his debut innings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/103/103776.html )〕 He accumulated a total of 628 runs at an average of more than 52, including two hundreds and one fifty.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/5/Ranji_Trophy_2006-07/Batting_by_Runs.html )〕 He continued his good form in the 2006-07 Ranji One-day Trophy by scoring 277 runs in 7 matches at an average of 39.57 and a high-score of 112.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/5/Ranji_Trophy_One_Day_2006-07/Tamil_Nadu_Batting.html )〕 Vijay played in all seven matches of Tamil Nadu in the 2007-08 Ranji Trophy and scored 582 runs at an average of 58.2 with two hundreds including a high-score of 230 * against Saurashtra.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/6/Ranji_Trophy_2007-08/Tamil_Nadu_Batting.html )〕 After the conclusion of Ranji Trophy, he was selected in the South Zone squad for 2007-08 Duleep Trophy. He batted at 3 in the first match against North Zone and scored a duck and 39.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/124/124546.html )〕 In the second game against East Zone, batting at 3 in the first innings, he scored 46, and registered another duck in the second innings while opening the batting.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/124/124548.html )〕 In the Vijay Hazare Trophy (earlier called Ranji One-day Trophy) that followed, Vijay played seven matches in which he opened the innings thrice and batted at 3 on four occasions. He found success batting at 3, making back-to-back hundreds against Hyderabad and Andhra.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/124/124696.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/124/124700.html )〕 In September 2008, Vijay was picked in the India A team to play against the touring New Zealand A team in two 4-day matches. He carried on his good form and made 45 and 59 in the first match, batting at 3, helping India A win by 129 runs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/185/185797.html )〕 He opened the innings and scored 98 and 0 in the second match, in which New Zealand A secured victory.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/185/185798.html )〕 In October 2008, Vijay was named in the India Red team for the Challenger Trophy. He played as an opener and finished second among highest run-scorers of the tournament with 164 runs from 3 matches at an average of 54.66.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/11/NKP_Salve_Challenger_Trophy_2008-09/Batting_by_Runs.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murali Vijay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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