Roshan Kumar, who is a wicket-keeper batsman, was included into the Odisha T20 earlier this year. He even played an impressive knock of 48 off 34 balls with 6 boundaries and a six, as Odisha defeated Mumbai team by 17 runs in Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Super League.
Roshan has so far played 8 T20 matches at the state level and scored 93 runs with the career best 48. He took 11 catches and triggered 3 stumping dismissal.
Roshan was born on December 28, 1993. He played in Odisha Under-16 team before getting the break into the state team. He has been staying in Bhubaneswar for long due to his training and practice. Roshan got a break, as seasoned wicket-keeper Haladhar Das was dropped from the team. Roshan will be the second wicket-keeper in the team after Rajesh Dhupar.
Odisha Ranji Team: Nataraj Behera, Girija Rout, Govind Podder (VC), Biplab Samantray (C), Anurag Sarangi, Pratik Das, Abhilash Mallick, Rajesh Dhupar (WK), P Roshan Kumar (WK), Basant Mohanty, Deepak Behera, Suryakant Pradhan, Alok Sahu, Jayant Behera, Amit Das.