{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}} {{Use British English|date=February 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = | image = | country = England | fullname = Vikram Atri | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1983|3|9|df=yes}} | birth_place = Hull, Yorkshire, England | heightft = | heightinch = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = Right-arm off break | role = | family = | club4 = Lincolnshire | year4 = 2004–2013 | club3 = Loughborough UCEE | year3 = 2002–2005 | club2 = Nottinghamshire | year2 = 2002–2003 | club1 = Nottinghamshire Cricket Board | year1 = 2001 | columns = 2 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 12 | runs1 = 548 | bat avg1 = 28.84 | 100s/50s1 = 0/4 | top score1 = 98 | deliveries1 = 6 | wickets1 = 0 | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1 = 8/– | column2 = List A | matches2 = 1 | runs2 = 0 | bat avg2 = 0.00 | 100s/50s2 = 0/0 | top score2 = 0 | deliveries2 = – | wickets2 = – | bowl avg2 = – | fivefor2 = – | tenfor2 = – | best bowling2 = – | catches/stumpings2 = 0/– | date = 28 September | year = 2010 | source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/8857.html Cricinfo }} '''Vikram Atri''' (born 9 March 1983) is an English first-class cricketer. Atri is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break. He was born at Hull, Yorkshire.
Atri made his only appearance in List A cricket for the Nottinghamshire Cricket Board against Bedfordshire<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/35/35339/List_A_Matches.html List-A Matches played by Vikram Atri]</ref> in the 2001 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy at Wardown Park, Luton, with the Board losing by 3 wickets.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/71/71997.html Bedfordshire v Nottinghamshire Cricket Board, 2001 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy]</ref> In his only List-A match he was dismissed for a duck.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/35/35339/a_Batting_by_Team.html List A Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Vikram Atri]</ref>
Atri made his first-class debut for Nottinghamshire against West Indies A in 2002, and, batting as an opener, made a score of 98 against bowling that included past and future Test players Marlon Black and Tino Best.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/74/74938.html Nottinghamshire v West Indies A, 2002]</ref> ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' reported that "the calm and compact Vikram Atri caught the eye, before he trudged off dejectedly, two shy of a century in his maiden first-class knock".<ref>{{Cite book | title = Wisden Cricketers' Almanack | editor=Tim de Lisle | edition = 2003 | publisher = John Wisden & Co Ltd | chapter = West Indies A in England | page = 548 }}</ref> Atri's innings was characterised as "patient" and "dogged" in another report, which noted, however, nine "graceful" boundaries on the first day alone, when rain curtailed play.<ref>{{Cite web | title = Notts prosper against West Indies A | url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/notts-prosper-against-west-indies-a-116656 | first=Sean | last=Beynon | publisher = espncricinfo.com |accessdate=14 April 2021}}</ref> In the event, Atri played only two further first-class matches for Nottinghamshire, both of them in the 2003 County Championship against Middlesex and Kent. In 2003, he made his first-class debut for Loughborough UCCE against Somerset and from 2003 to 2005, he represented Loughborough UCCE in nine first-class matches, the last of which came against Worcestershire.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/35/35339/First-Class_Matches.html First-Class Matches played by Vikram Atri]</ref> In his combined total of 12 first-class matches, he scored 548 runs at a batting average of 28.84, with four half centuries, although he never surpassed his 98 on debut. In the field he took 8 catches.
In 2004, Atri made his Minor Counties Championship debut for Lincolnshire against Norfolk. He played for Lincolnshire until 2013.
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