Devang Gandhi

India

Full name Devang Jayant Gandhi

Born September 6, 1971, Bhavnagar, Gujarat

Current age 49 years 180 days

Major teams India, Bengal, Essex Cricket Board, Kings XI Punjab

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm medium

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	4	7	1	204	88	34.00	545	37.43	0	2	27	1	3
ODIs	3	3	0	49	30	16.33	97	50.51	0	0	8	0	0
First-class	95	150	7	6111	323	42.73			16	27			67
List A	98	95	9	3402	164*	39.55			9	16			32

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
ODIs	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	95		734	334	6	2/10		55.66	2.73	122.3		0	0
List A	98		789	605	17	3/19	3/19	35.58	4.60	46.4	0	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	India v New Zealand at Mohali, Oct 10-14, 1999 scorecard
Last Test	Australia v India at Adelaide, Dec 10-14, 1999 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	India v New Zealand at Delhi, Nov 17, 1999 scorecard
Last ODI	Australia v India at Perth, Jan 30, 2000 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut	1994/95
Last First-class	Karnataka v Bengal at Mysore, Dec 17-20, 2005 scorecard
List A debut	1994/95
Last List A	Bengal v Tamil Nadu at Mumbai (BS), Apr 12, 2005 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
19, 0	Bengal	v Karnataka	Mysore	17 Dec 2005	FC
30, 14	Bengal	v Mumbai	Mumbai	9 Dec 2005	FC
0/5, 15	Bengal	v Delhi	Delhi	1 Dec 2005	FC
5, 2/10	Bengal	v Maharashtra	Pune	23 Nov 2005	FC

Profile

Though the tour of Australia in 1999-2000 exposed Devang Gandhi's technique against the fast, short rising deliveries, he continued to play well at domestic level. His international career started so well, albeit on Indian wickets. Against New Zealand in his debut series, Gandhi seemed completely at ease in handling the new ball and he was at once hailed an opening batsmen of considerable promise. Two successive opening stands with Sadagopan Ramesh in the Tests marked him out as a batsman who seemed to have everything - strokes, technique, temparament and courage. Then came the nightmarish tour of Australia and suddenly Gandhi found the critics writing his epitaph. While he was not discouraged by such adverse comments, Gandhi's resolve was not enough to enable him to fight his way back into the Indian team. He announced his retirement in April 2006.
Partab Ramchand

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