Shivakant Shukla is a Right-arm off-break bowler and a Left-handed batsman of the Uttar Pradesh Cricket team. He is also popularly known as "Mayank". Shivakant Shukla was born on January 26, 1986 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. He has played under the team of Central Zone (India) apart from the Uttar Pradesh team.
Cricket Statistics of Shivakant Shukla
In the semi-final of the 2008-09 Ranji Trophy, Shivakant Shukla batted for 821 minutes to score an unbeaten 178 to take Uttar Pradesh through to their 3rd final in 4 years. But Shukla had scored only 2 centuries in 28 previous "First-Class" matches.
A left-hand opening batsman, Shukla comes from the same "Under-19" batch as Suresh Raina, Irfan Pathan, Piyush Chawla, Dinesh Karthik, Robin Uthappa and VRV Singh. The lack of infrastructure and technical guidance in Uttar Pradesh he couldn"t grow much. He was selected for the Central Zone team for Duleep Trophy after his heroics in the knock-out matches.
Batting and fielding averages of Shivakant Shukla
| Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s | Ct | St | |
| First-class | 53 | 94 | 6 | 2550 | 178 | 28.97 | 6420 | 39.71 | 4 | 9 | 46 | 0 | ||
| List A | 22 | 22 | 1 | 579 | 122 | 27.57 | 921 | 62.86 | 1 | 2 | 70 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| Twenty20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 8.00 | 10 | 80.00 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bowling Averages of Shivakant Shukla
| Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10 | |
| First-class | 53 | 1170 | 625 | 17 | 3/12 | 36.76 | 3.2 | 68.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| List A | 22 | 131 | 99 | 5 | 2/20 | 2/20 | 19.80 | 4.53 | 26.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Twenty20 | 1 | - | - |
Career Statistics of Shivakant Shukla
| First-class Debut | Uttar Pradesh v Mumbai at Lucknow, Nov 23-26, 2003 |
| Last First-class | Railways v Saurashtra at Delhi, Dec 21-23, 2011 |
| List A Debut | Vidarbha v Uttar Pradesh at Jaipur, Jan 4, 2004 |
| Last List A | Rajasthan v Railways at Nagpur, Feb 26, 2012 |
| Twenty20 Debut | Railways v Uttar Pradesh at Indore, Oct 20, 2009 |
