Hemant Anand Kinikar (born 6 December 1971) is an Indian former first-class cricketer who played for Maharashtra.
Kinikar played as a right-handed opening batsman and occasional off break bowler.
He made his first-class debut for Maharashtra against Saurashtra at the age of 20 during the 1992–93 Ranji Trophy and scored 110 and 47 in that match.
[1] He was the second highest run-scorer of the tournament finishing behind teammate Santosh Jedhe, with 754 runs in 8 matches,[2] while Maharashtra reached the final of the tournament.
In 2016, he was a coach at V. V. S. Laxman's academy in Hyderabad[4] and head coach of the HK Bounce Cricket Academy in Pune.