Akhil Arvind Herwadkar (born 31 October 1994) is a cricketer who plays as an All-rounder opening batsman for the Chhattisgarh. Herwadkar is a left-hand batsman and offbreak bowler. He has played for Mumbai Under-19s. He was a member of the Indian Under-19 World Cup squads of 2012 and 2014.^[1][2]

Herwadkar was born in Sangli. He hails from a small town Jaysingpur near Sangli. He came to a training camp in Pune as an 11-year-old.^[3] He made his first-class debut for Mumbai, at the age of 17, on 29 November 2011 against Orissa and scored 11 runs in that match.