| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Legbreak googly | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | Indian | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Tests | First-class | ||
| Matches | 1 | 121 | ||
| Runs scored | - | 3798 | ||
| Batting average | - | 31.91 | ||
| 100s/50s | -/- | 6/17 | ||
| Top score | - | 163* | ||
| Balls bowled | 294 | 16846 | ||
| Wickets | 2 | 295 | ||
| Bowling average | 76.00 | 24.53 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | - | 7 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | - | 1 | ||
| Best bowling | 2/82 | 7/83 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | -/- | 71/- | ||
| Source: [1], | ||||
Rakesh Chandra Shukla (born February 4, 1948, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh) is a former Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1982. He was leg-break-googly-bowler and a decent hard-hitting batsman also. Those days all-rounders were not given the recognition unlike later years. With spin quartet of Bishan Singh Bedi, B. S. Chandrasekhar, S. Venkataraghavan and Erapalli Prasanna he couldn't break into Indian team. In his later years youngsters like Maninder Singh and Ravi Shastri were preferred. He would have made a better cricketer if One-day cricket was common like later years. Shukla is presently a Cricket Consultant, giving his guidance to future cricketers as well as Cricketing professionals.