[9] It was for Bedfordshire that he made his List A debut, against Sussex in the 2005 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy at Wardown Park.
Lancashire cricket coach, Mike Watkinson, stated "Adrian is a quality young batsman who fills a gap in our player development programme.
[14] While on the Lancashire staff, Shankar chose to study part-time for a two-year masters course in international relations, also at Cambridge.
It fitted in with Shankar's ambition to play cricket for Lancashire as the course required that he only had to be in Cambridge for six weeks of the year.
[5] He scored 10 unbeaten runs in Worcestershire's first-innings, before retiring hurt[17] with a strained cruciate ligament which was set to rule him out for six weeks.
[18] Two weeks after signing for his new county, his claims that he was three years younger than his actual age and that he had enjoyed a successful season playing high level cricket in Sri Lanka turned out to be false.
Worcestershire also passed his registration documents to West Mercia Police,[20] who later decided not to pursue criminal charges.