Digvijay Deshmukh

{{Short description|Indian cricketer (born 1998)}}

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| birth_place =Beed District, Maharashtra, India

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| date = 12 November 2019

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/1206410.html ESPNcricinfo

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Digvijay Deshmukh (born 12 April 1998) is an Indian cricketer.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/1206410.html |title=Digvijay Deshmukh |access-date=12 November 2019 |work=ESPNcricinfo}} He made his Twenty20 debut on 12 November 2019, for Maharashtra in the 2019–20 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/1205773.html |title=Group C, Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy at Chandigarh, Nov 12 2019 |access-date=12 November 2019 |work=ESPNcricinfo}} He made his first-class debut on 17 December 2019, for Maharashtra in the 2019–20 Ranji Trophy.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/1203473.html |title=Elite, Group C, Ranji Trophy at Pune, Dec 17-20 2019 |access-date=17 December 2019 |work=ESPNcricinfo}} In the 2020 IPL auction, he was bought by the Mumbai Indians ahead of the 2020 Indian Premier League.{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/28338426/ipl-auction-analysis-do-eight-teams-their-best-xis-place? |title=IPL auction analysis: Do the eight teams have their best XIs in place? |work=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=20 December 2019}}

Outside of cricket, he acted in the Bollywood film Kai Po Che! in 2013. He played the role of 14-year-old Ali Hashmi, a child cricketer, around whom the plot of the Sushant Singh Rajput, Rajkumar Rao, Amit Sadh-starrer revolved.{{cite news |title=Did you know Digvijay Deshmukh of Mumbai Indians is the same child actor from Kai Po Che |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/ipl-2020/story/kai-po-che-child-actor-digvijay-deshmukh-bought-by-mumbai-indians-auction-2020-1630298-2019-12-21 |access-date=21 December 2019 |work=India Today |language=en}}