Dilip Sardesai

India|Top order Batter
Dilip Sardesai
INTL CAREER: 1961 - 1972
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Full Name

Dilip Narayan Sardesai

Born

August 08, 1940, Margao, Goa

Died

July 02, 2007, Mumbai, (aged 66y 328d)

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Bowler

Playing Role

Top order Batter

RELATIONS

The 1970-71 West Indies tour was the last chance for Dilip Sardesai. He was lucky to be picked - it had looked as if his career was dead and buried - he went on to be Indian cricket's Renaissance Man in the watershed year of 1971. A technically correct player, the solid, wristy Sardesai was proficient against spin, but in West Indies he showed his mettle against pace, and pulled India repeatedly out of quicksand. He scored 642 runs, with two single hundreds and a double, and provided an inspirational launching-pad for a legend - Sunil Gavaskar, in his first series. In England later in 1971, Sardesai's pivotal double of 54 and 40 allowed Chandrasekhar to hasten England's defeat at The Oval. Sardesai was limpet-like and usually defensive, but he could attack when he needed to, and scored one of India's fastest hundreds, against New Zealand at Delhi in 1964-65. In the previous Test, his 200 not out at Bombay salvaged a draw after India had been skittled for 88 in the innings. Sardesai enjoyed playing against England: he made his Test debut against them in 1961-62, even before he'd played for Bombay, and it was against England, at Kanpur two years later, that he scored 79 and, after India followed on, 87 to help save the game.
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Career Averages
Batting & Fielding
FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAve100s50s6sCtSt
Test30554200121239.2359240
FC179271261023022241.752556-850
Bowling
FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Test30559450---4.57-000
FC179-79155282/15-69.004.1898.8-00
Dilip Sardesai
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Span
1960/61 - 1972/73
Photos
Dilip Sardesai is caught by Alan Knott
Dilip Sardesai on his way to 53
Dilip Sardesai
The 1967 India squad touring England. (Standing, from left): V Subramanya, Bhagwath Chandrasekhar, Sadanand Mohol, Subrata Guha, S Venkataraghavan, Farokh Engineer, Ajit Wadekar, Ramesh Saxena, Hanumant Singh, Bishan Bedi and Erapalli Prasanna. (Front row) M Chinnaswamy (treasurer), Rusi Surti, Chandu Borde, Nawab of Pataudi (captain), Keki Tarapore (manager), Budhi Kunderan and Dilip Sardesai
Dilip Sardesai bats during his century at Port-of-Spain in 1971
Collage: Rajdeep Sardesai as a child, with his father, Dilip Sardesai