Vijayakanth Viyaskanth – Star

Vijayakanth Viyaskanth விஜயகாந்த் வியாஸ்காந்த் (born 5 December 2001) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a talented leg spinner who plays for the Jaffna Kings in the Lanka Premier League. He made his Twenty20 debut on 4 December 2020, for the Jaffna Stallions in the 2020 Lanka Premier League. In November 2021, he was selected to play for the Jaffna Kings following the player’s draft for the 2021 Lanka Premier League.

He made his List A debut on 30 January 2022, for Team Jaffna in the 2021-22 SLC National Super League. In July 2022, he was signed by the Jaffna Kings for the third edition of the Lanka Premier League. He was one of the leading wicket takers in the tournament, taking 13 wickets. In December 2022, he was picked by the Chattogram Challengers for the ninth season of the Bangladesh Premier League.

Legspinner Vijaykanth Viyaskanth first rose to prominence in December 2020, when he became the youngest player to feature in the Lanka Premier League for Jaffna Stallions. In that tournament, he also became the first born-and-bred player from Jaffna, in Sri Lanka’s northern tip and once the epicenter of a three-decade-long civil war, to appear in an internationally televised game.

He made his Sri Lanka debut at the Asian Games in Hangzhou. He also impressed with eight wickets in four outings at an economy of 5.43 for title winners MI Emirates in the ILT20 tournament. He has also represented Chattogram Challengers in the Bangladesh Premier League.

He got a first chance at the IPL when he was picked up as a replacement player in the 2024 season by Sunrisers Hyderabad.