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Vijayakanth Viyaskanth

Sri Lankan cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ103821545 ↗
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Vijayakanth Viyaskanth (Tamil: விஜயகாந்த் வியாஸ்காந்த்; born 5 December 2001) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm leg break bowler. He is a talented leg spinner, who plays for the Jaffna Kings in the Lanka Premier League. He has also played for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League.

Domestic career

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 players' draft for the 2021 Lanka Premier League.

He made his List A debut on 30 January 2022, for the 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 2022–23 Bangladesh Premier League.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2020, 2021, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001-12-05. For this dossier, Vijayakanth, Viyaskanth and Lankan is the immediate research focus.
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