Coming from a cricketing family, Vijay Shankar born in Tamil Nadu on January 26, 1991. He has always been passionate about the game as he played cricket as a net bowler with his father and brother.

Vijay Shankar was an Off-spin bowler till he was 20, He then changed to Medium pace to get more game time in a Tamil Nadu team who already had some good spinners in their setup. This big change of his career happened when his Ranji Team were going through a rebuilding phase back in 2013-14.