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India Test Player Profiles

Sourav Chandidas GANGULY (Captain)

Born: Calcutta, 8-7-1972
Type: Left hand middle-order / opening batsman and right arm medium pace bowler.
Team: Bengal. Also for Lancashire in the English county in 2000
First-class debut: 1989-90 (for Bengal)
Test debut: v England at Lord's, 1996
Highest Test score: 173 v Sri Lanka at Bombay (WS), 1997-98
Best Test bowling: 3-28 v Australia at Calcutta, 1997-98
Test captaincy record (2000-01): P4, W2, L1, D1

Rahul Sharad DRAVID (Vice Captain)

Born: Indore (Madhya Pradesh), 11-1-1973
Type: Right hand middle-order batsman and occasional right arm off-break bowler. Can also keep wickets
Team: Karnataka. Also for Kent in the English county in 2000.
First-class debut: 1990-91 (for Karnataka)
Test debut: v England at Lord's, 1996
Highest Test score: 200* v Zimbabwe at Delhi, 2000-01

Ajit Bhalchandra AGARKAR

Born: Bombay, 4-12-1977
Type: Right hand middle-order batsman and right arm fast medium bowler
Team: Mumbai (Bombay)
Fc debut: 1996-97 (for Bombay)
Test debut: v Zimbabwe at Harare, 1998-99
Highest Test score: 41* v South Africa at Mumbai, 1999-00
Best Test bowling in an innings: 3-43 v Australia at Adelaide, 1999-00

Hemang Kamal BADANI

Born: Madras, 14-11-1976
Type: Left hand middle-order batsman and left arm slow bowler
Team: Tamil Nadu
First-class debut: 1996-97
Test debut: not yet

Shiv Sunder DAS

Born: Bhubaneshwar, 5-11-1977
Type: Right hand opening batsman
Team: Orissa
First-class debut: 1993-94
Test debut: v Bangladesh at Dhaka, 2000-01
Highest Test score: 110 v Zimbabwe at Nagpur, 2000-01

HARBHAJAN SINGH

Born: Jalandhar, 3-7-1980
Type: Right hand tail end batsman and right arm off-break bowler
Team: Punjab
First-class debut: 1997-98 (for Punjab)
Test debut: v Australia at Bangalore, 1997-98
Highest Test score: 17* v Australia at Mumbai, 2000-01
Best Test bowling in an innings: 4-121 v Australia at Mumbai, 2000-01

Narendra Deepchand HIRWANI

Born: Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, 18-10-1968
Type: Right hand tail-end batsman and right arm leg-break bowler
Teams: Madhya Pradesh (from 1984-85) & Bengal (in 1996-97)
First-class debut: 1984-85
Test debut: v West Indies at Madras, 1987-88
Highest Test score: 17 v New Zealand at Hyderabad, 1988-89
Best Test bowling in an innings: 8-61 v West Indies at Madras, 1987-88 (on debut)
Best Test bowling in a match: 16-136 v West Indies at Madras, 1987-88 (on debut)
Last Test appearance: v South Africa at Calcutta, 1996-97

Vangipurappu Venkata Sai LAXMAN

Born: Hyderabad, 1-11-1974
Type: Right hand opening batsman and occasional right arm off-break bowler
Team: Hyderabad
First-class debut: 1992-93
Test debut: v South Africa at Ahmedabad, 1996-97
Highest Test score: 167 v Australia at Sydney, 1999-00

Nayan Ramlal MONGIA

Born: Baroda, 19-12-1969
Type: Right hand middle order batsman and wicket-keeper
Team: Baroda
First-class debut: 1989-90
Test debut: v Sri Lanka at Lucknow, 1993-94
Highest Test score: 152 v Australia at Delhi, 1996-97
Best Test wicket-keeping performance (in an innings):5 (5ct) v South Africa at Durban, 1996-97, and 5 (5ct) v Pakistan at Calcutta, 1998-99
Best Test wicket-keeping performance (in a match): 8 (8ct) v South Africa at Durban, 1996-97, and 8 (8ct) v Pakistan at Calcutta, 1998-99

Sadagoppan RAMESH

Born: Madras, 16-10-1975
Type: Left hand opening batsman and occasional right arm off-break bowler.
Team: Tamil Nadu
First-class debut: 1995-96 (for Tamil Nadu)
Test debut: v Pakistan at Madras, 1998-99
Highest Test score: 143 v Sri Lanka at Colombo (SSC), 1998-99

Rahul Laxman SANGHVI

Born: Surat, Gujarat, 3-9-1974
Type: Left hand lower order batsman and left arm slow bowler
Teams: Railways (1994-95) and Delhi (since 1995-96)
First-class debut: 1994-95
Test debut: : v Australia at Mumbai, 2000-01
Highest Test score: 2 v Australia at Mumbai, 2000-01
Best Test bowling in an innings: 2-67 v Australia at Mumbai, 2000-01

Javagal SRINATH

Born: Mysore (Karnataka), 31-8-1969
Type: Rght hand lower order batsman and right arm fast medium bowler
Teams: Karnataka. Also appeared for Gloucestershire in 1995.
First-class debut: 1989-90 (for Karnataka)
Test debut: v Australia at Brisbane, 1991-92
Highest Test score: 76 v New Zealand at Hamilton, 1998-99
Best Test bowling in an innings: 8-86 v Pakistan at Calcutta, 1998-99
Best Test bowling in a match: 13-132 v Pakistan at Calcutta, 1998-99

Sachin Ramesh TENDULKAR

Born: Bombay, 24-4-1973
Type: Right hand middle-order / opening batsman and right arm slow bowler
Teams: Mumbai (Bombay). Also appeared for Yorkshire in 1992
First-class debut: 1988-89 (for Bombay)
Test debut: v Pakistan at Karachi, 1989-90
Highest Test score: 217 v New Zealand at Ahmedabad, 1999-00
Best Test bowling: 3-10 v South Africa at Mumbai, 1999-00
Test captaincy record (1996-97 to 1999-00): P25, W4, L9, D12

Krishnarao Venkatesh Prasad

Born: Born: Bangalore, 5-8-1969
Type: Rght hand tailend batsman and right arm fast medium bowler
Team: Karnataka
First-class debut: 1999-91(for Karnataka)
Last Test:
Test debut: v Australia at Sydney, 1999-00
Highest Test score:30* v New Zealand at Hamilton, 1998-99
Best Test bowling: 6-33 v Pakistan at Madras, 1998-99

Sagi Lakshmi VENKATAPATHY RAJU

Born: Hyderabad, 9-7-1969
Type: Right hand tail-end batsman and left arm slow bowler
Team: Hyderabad
First-class debut: 1985-86
Last Test: v Australia at Bangalore, 1997-98
Test debut: v New Zealand at Christchurch, 1989-90
Highest Test score:31 v New Zealand at Christchurch, 1989-90 and Australia at Melbourne, 1991-92
Best Test bowling(in an innings):6-12 v Sri Lanka at Chandigarh, 1990-91
Best Test bowling (in a match): 11-125 v Sri Lanka at Ahmedabad, 1993-94

SARANDEEP SINGH

Born: Amritsar, 21-10-1979
Type: Right hand tail-end batsman and right arm off-break bowler
Team: Punjab
First-class debut: v Zimbabwe at Nagpur, 2000-01
Last Test: v Zimbabwe at Nagpur, 2000-01
Best Test bowling : 4-136 v Zimbabwe at Nagpur, 2000-01

Ashish NEHRA

Born: Delhi, 29-4-1979
Type: Right hand tail-end batsman and left arm fast medium pace bowler
Team:Delhi
First-class debut: 1997-98
Test debut: v Sri Lanka at Colombo (SSC), 1998-99
Last Test: v Sri Lanka at Colombo (SSC), 1998-99
Best Test bowling : 1-94 v Sri Lanka at Colombo (SSC), 1998-99

ZAHEER KHAN

Born: Srirampur, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, 7-10-1978
Type: Right hand lower-order batsman and left arm fast-medium bowler
Team: Baroda
First-class debut: 1999-00
Test debut: v Bangladesh at Dhaka, 2000-01
Highest Test score: 7* v Bangladesh at Dhaka, 2000-01
Best Test bowling: 2-49 v Bangladesh at Dhaka, 2000-01

Indian Coach: John Geoffrey WRIGHT

Country: New Zealand
Known as: John Wright
Nickname: Shake
Education: BSc in Biochemistry from University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Family Links with cricket: Father GT Wright played for Canterbury, while brother MJE Wright appeared for for Northern Districts.
Born: Darfield, Christchurch, Canterbury, 5-7-1954
Type: Left hand opening batsman and occasional right arm medium pace bowler
Coaching assingments: with Kent Cricket Club from 1997 to 2000. Coach of Indian cricket team since November 2000.
Teams: Northern Districts (1975-76 to 1983-84), Canterbury (1984-85 to 1988-89) and Auckland (1989-90 to 1992-93). Also appeared for Derbyshire in English county from 1977 to 1988.
First-class tenure: 1975-76 to 1992-93
Highest Fc score: 192 for Canterbury v Central Districts at New Plymouth, 1986-87
Best bowling: 1-4

First-class career:
M Inns No Runs Avg HS 100 50
366 636 44 25073 42.35 192 59 126
Ct Balls Runs Wkts Avge Best 5w 10w
192 370 339 2 169.50 1-4 - -

Test debut: v England at Wellington, 1977-78
Last Test: v Australia at Auckland, 1992-93
Highest Test score: 185 v India at Christchurch, 1989-90
Test captaincy record (1987-88 to 1990): P14, W3, L3, D8

Test career:
M Inns No Runs Avg HS 100 50
82 148 7 5334 37.83 185 12 23
Ct Balls Runs Wkts Avge Best 5w 10w
38 30 5 0 - - - -

LOI debut: v England at Scarbrough, 15-7-1978
Last LOI match: v Sri Lanka at Colombo (PSS), 12-12-1992
Highest LOI score: 101 v England at Napier, 16-3-1988
LOI captaincy record (19-3-1983 to 25-5-1990): P31, W16, L15

LOI career:
M Inns No Runs Avg HS 100 50
149 148 1 3888 26.45 101 1 24
Ct Balls Runs Wkts Avge Best 5w R/o
51 24 8 0 - - - 2.00

India - Test career batting and fielding
Player M Inns No Runs HS Avg 100 50 0 Ct St
Agarkar, AB 9 14 1 118 41* 9.08 - - 7 3 -
Das, SS 4 7 1 244 110 40.67 1 1 - 7 -
Dravid, RS 41 71 7 3370 200* 52.66 8 17 2 47 -
Ganguly, SC 39 66 6 2720 173 45.33 7 14 4 32 -
Harbhajan Singh 9 13 7 48 17* 8.00 - - 3 2 -
Hirwani, ND 20 35 3 866 167 27.06 1 5 4 23 -
Laxman, VVS 43 66 8 1436 152 24.76 1 6 6 96 8
Mongia, NR 13 25 1 1009 143 42.04 2 6 2 9 -
Ramesh, S 1 2 0 2 2 1.00 - - 1 - -
Srinath, J 50 71 18 808 76 15.25 - 4 8 21 -
Tendulkar, SR 80 127 13 6557 217 57.52 24 26 7 56 -
Zaheer Khan 2 1 1 7 7* - - - - 1 -
Nehra, A 1 0 0 0 - - - - - - -
Prasad, BKV 29 41 16 161 30* 6.44 - - 9 6 -
Raju, SLV 27 33 10 236 31 10.26 - - 3 6 -
Sanghvi, RL 1 2 0 2 2 1.00 - - 1 - -
Sharandeep Singh 1 0 0 0 - - - - - - -
Note: HK Badani not appeared in Tests

India - Test career Bowling
Player M Balls Md Runs W Ave Best 5 10 SR R/o
Agarkar, AB 9 1776 76 848 23 36.87 3/43 - - 77.22 2.87
Das, SS 4 18 0 7 0 - 0/7 - - - 2.33
Dravid, RS 41 66 1 21 0 - 0/0 - - - 1.91
Ganguly, SC 39 1317 39 721 20 36.05 3/28 - - 65.85 3.29
Harbhajan Singh 9 1894 66 942 25 37.68 4/121 - - 75.76 2.98
Hirwani, ND 17 4298 157 1987 66 30.11 8/61 4 1 65.12 2.77
Laxman, VVS 20 150 4 68 0 - 0/1 - - - 2.72
Ramesh, S 13 24 0 19 0 - 0/5 - - - 4.75
Srinath, J 50 11584 436 5539 185 29.94 8/86 7 1 62.62 2.87
Tendulkar, SR 79 1350 48 687 19 36.16 3/10 - - 71.05 3.05
Zaheer Khan 2 384 14 195 5 39.00 2/49 - - 76.80 3.05
Nehra, A 1 168 5 94 1 94.00 1/94 - - 168.00 3.36
Prasad, BKV 29 6261 246 2950 85 34.71 6/33 6 1 73.66 2.83
Raju, SLV 27 7392 356 2741 92 29.79 6/12 5 1 80.35 2.22
Sanghvi, RL 1 74 3 78 2 39.00 2/67 - - 37.00 6.32
Sharandeep Singh 1 426 17 206 6 34.33 4/136 - - 71.00 2.90

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