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{{Infobox cricketer<br />
| name = B. Vijayakrishna<br />
| image = <br />
| country = India<br />
| fullname = B Vijayakrishna<br />
| nickname = Viji<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1949|10|12|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Bangalore]], [[Karnataka]], [[India]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|6|17|1949|10|12|df=yes}}<br />
| batting = Left-handed batsman<br />
| bowling = Slow left-arm orthodox<br />
| role = [[All-rounder]]<br />
| club1 = [[Karnataka cricket team|Karnataka]]<br />
| year1 = 1968–69 to 1983–84<br />
| columns = 2<br />
| column1 = [[first-class cricket|FC]]<br />
| matches1 = 80<br />
| runs1 = 2297<br />
| bat avg1 = 25.80<br />
| 100s/50s1 = 2/16<br />
| top score1 = 104<br />
| deliveries1 = 13043<br />
| wickets1 = 194<br />
| bowl avg1 = 27.30<br />
| fivefor1 = 7<br />
| tenfor1 = 1<br />
| best bowling1 = 7/85<br />
| catches/stumpings1 = 76/0<br />
| column2 = [[List A cricket|List A]]<br />
| matches2 = 2<br />
| runs2 = 21<br />
| bat avg2 = 10.50<br />
| 100s/50s2 = 0/0<br />
| top score2 = 15<br />
| deliveries2 = 110<br />
| wickets2 = 3<br />
| bowl avg2 = 23.33<br />
| fivefor2 = 0<br />
| tenfor2 = 0<br />
| best bowling2 = 2/36<br />
| catches/stumpings2 = 0/0<br />
| date = 26 January<br />
| year = 2021<br />
| source = https://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/35889.html Cricinfo<br />
}}<br />
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'''Bharanaiah Vijayakrishna''', (12 October 1949 &ndash; 17 June 2021) was an Indian cricketer who played for [[Karnataka cricket team|Karnataka]].<ref>[https://news.abplive.com/sports/cricket/veteran-karnataka-spinner-b-vijayakrishna-dies-at-71-twitter-expresses-condolences-cm-yediyurappa-1464109 Veteran Karnataka Spinner B Vijayakrishna Dies At 71, ABP News]</ref><ref>[https://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/35889.html Cricinfo Profile]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aninews.in/news/sports/cricket/yediyurappa-condoles-death-of-former-cricketer-b-vijayakrishna20210617113523/ |title=Yediyurappa condoles death of former cricketer B Vijayakrishna |work=ANI |access-date=17 June 2021}}</ref> In his fifteen year career as a left arm spinner and a left handed batsman, he played 80 [[first class cricket|first class]] matches in which he scored over 2000 runs and took 194 wickets.<br />
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==Career==<br />
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Early in his career, Vijayakrishna was encouraged by K. Nagabhushan, a Karnataka cricketer from the late 1960s, who made him bowl with a tennis ball in a car shed.<ref name=PRV>P.R. Viswanathan, An adventurer with a cool head, Sportstar, 1984</ref> He took three wickets against [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]] on his Ranji debut in [[1968–69 Ranji Trophy|1968–69]] and six against [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Madras]] in the next match. But his career was often interrupted by the presence of the national level spinners [[B. S. Chandrasekhar]] and [[Erapalli Prasanna]] when they were available to play the [[Ranji Trophy]]. He was included in the fourteen for the South Zone team for the [[Duleep Trophy]] in 1969 but got his next chance only ten years later.<br />
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In the quarter final against [[Rajasthan cricket team|Rajasthan]] in [[1971–72 Ranji Trophy|1971–72]], Vijayakrishna scored 71* with a severe ankle injury.<ref>[http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1970S/1971-72/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/KNOCK-OUTS/MYSORE_RAJ_RJI-QF2_17-20MAR1972.html Rajasthan v Karnataka, 1971-72]</ref> As he could not walk, he was carried all the way to the dressing room.<ref name=PRV/> He was dropped from the first four matches of [[1975–76 Ranji Trophy|1975–76]] for his "straightforwardness and frank expression of views".<ref name=PRV/> Brought back to the side for the quarter final match against [[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]], he scored 66 in the first innings and 102* in 138 minutes in the second that won him the award for the fastest century of the season.<ref>[http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1970S/1975-76/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/KNOCK-OUTS/KNTKA_MAHA_RJI-QF4_17-20JAN1976.html Karnataka v Maharastra, 1975-76]</ref> His other first class hundred was scored against [[Bihar cricket team|Bihar]] in [[1977–78 Ranji Trophy|1977–78]].<br />
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Against the [[West Indian cricket team in India and Sri Lanka in 1978–79|1978–79 West Indies team]], he took 6/79 and 3/89 to help Karnataka to a famous win.<ref>[http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1970S/1978-79/WI_IN_IND/WI_KNTKA_10-12FEB1979.html Karnataka v West Indians, 1978-79]</ref> Vijayakrishna retired after the Ranji final against Bombay in [[1982–83 Ranji Trophy|1982–83]]. He had been part of all three of Karnataka's title wins till then.<br />
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* {{cricinfo|ref=india/content/player/35889.html}}<br />
* [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/41/41312/41312.html Cricketarchive profile]<br />
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[[Category:Indian cricketers]]<br />
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