Jagadeesha Suchith Biography: Age, Height, Career, Facts and Net Worth

Jagadeesha Suchith Introduction

Jagadeesha Suchith’s career started out a bit differently from most of the players. Normally, a player has to battle it out at the age level teams of their district or state and then get a chance at senior level domestic cricket. If they do well for their state team in domestic competitions, they earn the chance of bagging a place in the Indian Premier League.

Suchith is one of those rare players, who was selected for IPL even before he made his first-class debut. He has always been a very talented cricketer. His slow left-arm orthodox spin caught the attention of legendary Indian spinner, Anil Kumble. Back in 2014, Kumble was associated with Mumbai Indians and was overseeing how the domestic players were performing in the trails. Suchith stood out for him, and the player soon found himself in the Mumbai Indians set up.

Jagadeesha Suchith Batting and Fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
First-class	17	26	8	284	41	15.77	880	32.27	0	0	24	4	10	0
List A	17	14	3	215	46	19.54	260	82.69	0	0	21	3	3	0
T20s	54	26	13	227	34*	17.46	185	122.70	0	0	18	8	23	0

Jagadeesha Suchith Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
First-class	17	30	2825	1409	51	6/60	9/109	27.62	2.99	55.3	3	3	0
List A	17	16	721	525	22	5/34	5/34	23.86	4.36	32.7	1	1	0
T20s	54	53	1026	1266	46	3/2	3/2	27.52	7.40	22.3	0	0	0

 

Jagadeesha Suchith Early Life

• Jagadeesha Suchith was born on January 16, 1994 at Mysuru, Karnataka, India.
• Suchith was always a very prominent name in the age-group teams of his state.
• He has represented Karnataka in the Under-15s, Under-16s, Under-19s, Under-22s, Under-23s and Under-25s level.
• Besides Karnataka, he has also played for the South Zone in an U19 competition.

Jagadeesha Suchith Domestic Career

• Suchith made his T20 debut on April 4, 2014. It was in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy game against Goa, at Visakhapatnam.
• Suchith bowled only one over in that match. He conceded 15 runs. With the bat, he could only score 4 runs.
• Suchith’s List A debut came on November 25, 2014. It was in a Vijay Hazare Trophy game against Punjab at Ahmedabad.
• Suchith conceded only 22 runs from the 8 overs he bowled in this game. He also took the wicket of legendary Indian player Harbhajan Singh.
• Suchith’s first-class debut came after he had impressed Anil Kumble at the Mumbai Indians trails. It was against Bangladesh A at September 22, 2015, in Mysuru.
• He took the crucial wicket of Liton Das, who is now a regular name in the Bangladesh team, in the first innings. In the second innings, he picked up 6 wickets by conceding just 60 runs. He also scored 41 runs with the bat.

Jagadeesha Suchith IPL Career

• Suchith impressed Kumble, who helped him earn a contract with Mumbai Indians. On his IPL debut, he took the big wicket of Glenn Maxwell.
• He also scored an unbeaten 21-ball 34 on that match. He set up a 100-run partnership with Harbhajan Singh.
• He later earned a contract with Delhi Capitals after Harshal Patel was ruled out with an injury.
• In the next season, he will play for Kings XI Punjab.
• Suchith has been playing with two crucial Kings XI Punjab players, KL Rahul and Karun Nair, since the U15 days.
• He feels that opportunities have been few for him. “Even after playing for so many years, I haven’t been given a lot of opportunities after the first year,” he once told Kings XI Punjab.
• He once tried to force a move out of Mumbai Indians, as he felt the team was too keen on playing Krunal Pandya. “The franchise was very keen on playing Krunal ahead of me. The communication was very limited between me and the officials,” he once told Sportstar.

Achievements

• He took a 6-wicket haul in his very first first-class game.
• He slammed the then fastest half-century of Karnataka Premier League in 2015. He did it in just 15 balls.