About Player
Kartikeya's story of him leaving home to pursue cricket is well documented. At 16, all alone, he moved to Delhi after giving his father a vow that he wouldn't return unless he'd made it big.
Kumar Kartikeya: “Slept in buses, did night shift in a car factory, just to play cricket”
In April 2022, Kartikeya was named as the replacement for Arshad Khan in the Mumbai Indians squad for the 2022 Indian Premier League (IPL), after Khan was ruled out due to an injury.
Kumar Kartikeya (born 26 December 1997) is an Indian cricketer who represents Madhya Pradesh in domestic cricket and the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL).