Yo Mahesh

{{Short description|Indian cricketer (born 1987)}}

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Yo Mahesh

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| country = India

| fullname = Vijaykumar Yo Mahesh

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1987|12|21|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Chennai, India

| nickname =

| heightft =

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| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm medium-fast

| role = All-rounder

| family =

| club1 = Delhi Daredevils

| year1 = 2008–2010

| club2 = Chennai Super Kings

| year2 = 2011–2012

| club3 = Tamil Nadu

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| club4 = Northern Warriors-Abu Dhabi T10 League

| year4 = 2021

| columns = 3

| column1 = FC

| matches1 = 50

| runs1 = 1119

| bat avg1 = 26.02

| 100s/50s1 = 2/5

| top score1 = 103*

| deliveries1 = 7132

| wickets1 = 108

| bowl avg1 = 35.31

| fivefor1 = 3

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 6/47

| catches/stumpings1 = 23/0

| column2 = LA

| matches2 = 61

| runs2 = 326

| bat avg2 = 13.04

| 100s/50s2 = 0/1

| top score2 = 55

| deliveries2 = 1665

| wickets2 = 93

| bowl avg2 = 24.67

| fivefor2 = 2

| tenfor2 = 0

| best bowling2 = 5/31

| catches/stumpings2 = 18/0

| column3 = T20

| matches3 = 46

| runs3 = 96

| bat avg3 = 9.60

| 100s/50s3 = 0/0

| top score3 = 17*

| deliveries3 = 929

| wickets3 = 52

| bowl avg3 = 23.00

| fivefor3 = 0

| tenfor3 = 0

| best bowling3 = 4/23

| catches/stumpings3 = 13/0

| date = 20 December

| year = 2020

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/31732.html ESPNcricinfo

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Vijaykumar Yo Mahesh (born 21 December 1987), is a former Indian cricketer who played for Tamil Nadu.{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/31732.html |title=Yo Mahesh |work=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=20 December 2020}} He is a right-hand batsman and bowls with his right hand. He studied in St. Bede's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Chennai.

He broke into the Indian U19 one-day squad for the series against Australia in September 2005 and played sufficiently well to retain his squad place for both the Afro-Asian Cup and the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka.{{Cite web|url=http://www.srilankasports.org/under_19/squads.htm |title=ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2006 - Team Squads |work=Sri Lanka Sports |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424101835/http://www.srilankasports.org/under_19/squads.htm |access-date=20 December 2020|archive-date=24 April 2016 }}

In his ten U19 ODIs to date, he has taken 15 wickets with a strike rate of one wicket every 32 balls. Previously, from 2008 to 2010, he played for Delhi Daredevils in the IPL.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1093101/once-upon-an-ipl |title=Once upon an IPL |work=Cricket Monthly |access-date=20 December 2020}} He was then signed up by the Chennai Super Kings in 2011 and released after the end of IPL 2012. He took most wickets in the 2009–10 Vijay Hazare Trophy, India's domestic 50 over tournament. He can swing the ball both ways.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}

On 20 December 2020, Mahesh announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.{{Cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/indian-domestic-season-former-tamil-nadu-and-chennai-super-kings-seamer-yo-mahesh-retires-from-all-forms-of-cricket-1244759 |title=Former Tamil Nadu and CSK seamer Yo Mahesh retires from all forms of cricket |work=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=20 December 2020}}