Full Name

Sanjay Bapusaheb Bangar

Born

October 11, 1972, Bid, Maharashtra

Age

51y 160d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Medium fast

One of the gutsiest allrounders in Indian domestic cricket, Bangar was a lucky mascot for the Indian Test team during his year-long run at international cricket. Barring his last two Tests in New Zealand, India didn't lose any of the 12 Tests he featured in, even registering three rare overseas victories.

While Bangar will be remembered for his 68 at the top of the order in the Headlingley Test in 2002 that paved way for the famous trio of Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, and Sourav Ganguly to score centuries and set up India's victory, he ended his two-decade first-class career as one of the most prolific allrounders in domestic cricket. When he retired, Bangar was one of only two cricketers to achieve the double of 6,000 runs and 200 wickets in the Ranji Trophy, alongside Vijay Hazare. Bangar led the Railways team to three domestic titles and was one of the pillars behind the team's transition from also-rans to a domestic force.

Post retirement, Bangar took up coaching. He was initially in charge of the India A side and a consultant at the BCCI's National Cricket Academy in Bangalore, before he was called up to the Indian team after the Test series leg of their tour of England in 2014 as the batting coach. He would stay with the Indian team over a five-year uninterrupted period. The highlights of his coaching tenure were Virat Kohli's ceiling-breaking feats in Test and ODI cricket, the rise of Rohit Sharma as an ODI behemoth, and a first-ever overseas Test series win in Australia.

Bangar also had a stint as the head coach of Kings XI Punjab, who reached the IPL 2014 final under his tenure, which remains their best-ever result in the competition.
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Sanjay Bangar Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests12182470100*29.37144732.481357340
ODIs1515218057*13.8423975.310114340
FC16527119834921233.13--1349--1430
List A1121048256013926.66--315--310
T20s332833816715.24306124.5002351760

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests121476234372/232/2349.002.70108.8000
ODIs151444238472/392/3954.855.2163.1000
FC165-2183793413006/41-31.132.5672.7-91
List A112-42643533924/354/3538.404.9746.3300
T20s3330578709315/165/1622.877.3518.6010
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Recent Matches of Sanjay Bangar

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
IND Legends vs SL Legends181/2310-Mar-2020DY PatilOTHERT20
Railways vs Bengal4 & 60/17 & 2/4329-Dec-2012Jadavpur UniFC
Railways vs Hyderabad43 & 151/28 & 0/922-Dec-2012HyderabadFC
Railways vs Rajasthan42/13 & 0/515-Dec-2012BhubaneswarFC
Railways vs M. Pradesh6 & 24/8108-Dec-2012BhubaneswarFC

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Photos of Sanjay Bangar

The Punjab Kings table at the IPL 2024 auction
Mohammed Siraj bowls as a video camera and Sanjay Bangar have a look
Sanjay Bangar chats with Kedar Jadhav
Damage done: Glenn Maxwell, Virat Kohli and Sanjay Bangar try to make sense of their side's collapse
The RCB table at the IPL 2022 auction
Sanjay Bangar and Rishabh Pant at a training session