Sumit Khatri is a professional cricket player who was born on July 15, 1989 in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He is a left left-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler.
He began his first-class cricket career by playing for the Rajasthan cricket team. On January 10, 2007, Sumit Khatri made his debut for this side in a match against Bengal. In his debut game, he scored forty six runs from both the innings with a strike rate of 41.81. He also scalped the wickets of Subhomoy Das and Sourav Ganguly and finished with the figures of 2/171 with an economy rate 4.62. Sumit Khatri is also a member of the Rajasthan List A team and has played a total of four matches for this side as of 2008. On February 26, 2008, he made his debut for this side in a match against Uttar Pradesh at Kanpur. In his Rajasthan List A team career, Sumit Khatri has scored a total of 87 runs with a strike rate of 87.87 that includes his personal best of 51 and took one wicket.
In 2008, Sumit Khatri signed with the Indian Premier League (IPL) side Rajasthan Royals and was a member of the squad that emerged victorious with the inaugural edition of the championship by defeating Chennai Super Kings in the finals.
