KS Bharat Biography : Age, Height, Early Life, Professional Life, Girlfriend, Facts & Net Worth -

K.S. Bharat is one of the budding wicketkeeper batsman of India. Though his age definitely does not allow him to be called a budding wicketkeeper-batsman, his little international experience helps to call us so. The player is a right-handed batsman and has already featured for India. He represents Andhra Pradesh in the domestic circuit whereas he has represented Royal Challengers Bangalore, Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League. He will be part of Gujarat Titans in the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League.

Early Life & Journey:

Kona Srikar Bharat a.k.a K S Bharat was born on 03rd October 1993. The 29-year-old was born to the couple Kona Srinivas Rao and Manga Devi. Kona Srinivas Rao is a renowned craftsman at Vizag’s naval dockyard whereas Manga Devi was a housewife.

Bharat had a great start to his cricket career and his passion helped him to reach the heights he wanted to achieve. The player studied at St.Aloysius High School and he pursued his cricket career from his school days. He was called up to train with the Andhra Ranji Trophy squad at the early age of 11. He was one of the ball boys for the India-Pakistan ODI fixture held in Vizag in 2005.

Kona Srikar Bharat was not a wicketkeeper at the start of his career. He started keeping wickets at the age of 19. He played his first-class game against Kerala in 2012. The first inning he played did not give him good returns as he was dismissed in the sixth over itself. However, the player inflicted three catches in the first innings. In the second innings he got to bat, the player went on to score 37 and played a role in taking the match to a draw.

K S Bharat did not allow the poor start to his batting to get on him as he accumulated runs in first-class cricket. This led to the national team call-ups but failed to get into the playing XI. In the meanwhile, he was signed by Royal Challengers Bangalore which allowed him to shine and make a statement. Following his fine performance, the management rewarded him with the test cap in 2022. He made his debut against Australia in a bilateral series at Nagpur.

Cricket & Stats

K.S. Bharat has been a sensational player in the domestic circuit and it has paved the way for his way to the national team. The player started his career in the very early stage and has an experience of 210+ domestic games. He is just ten games away from hitting the century mark in terms of the number of Ranji fixtures played. As he is with the national team over the last two years, he has not been able to feature for Andhra.

In the Ranji Trophy, he has 90 games under his belt and has scored 4808 runs at an average of 37.27. He has nine hundreds and 27 fifties to his name in the domestic circuit. The enterprising wicket-keeper batsman shot to fame when he featured for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2021 season. It is not that he was not well-known before. He had grabbed the eyeballs with his triple century in a Ranji game but the last ball six against Delhi Capitals in the final league game of the tournament caught everyone’s attention.

Kona Srikar Bharat made his national debut recently. The player received the national cap because of Rishabh Pant’s injury. He has made his test debut at the moment and has four test matches under his belt. Though he could not impress people to an extent he wanted, he filled the void in the absence of Pant. In four games, he has 101 runs with the highest score of 44.

FORMAT	Matches	Innings	Not Outs	Runs	Highest Score	Average	Strike Rate	100s	50s
Test	4	6	1	101	44	20.2	59.41	0	0
FC	90	141	12	4808	308	37.27	59.79	9	27
List A	64	64	6	1950	161*	33.62	76.98	6	6
T20	67	62	5	1116	78*	19.57	109.19	0	5