Full Name
Navjot Singh Sidhu
Born
October 20, 1963, Patiala, Punjab
Age
57y 174d
Batting Style
Right hand bat
Bowling Style
Right arm medium
Playing Role
Opening batsman
Other
Commentator
TEAMS
Navjot Singh Sidhu's cricket had a volatile touch to it. A dour batsman capable of dogged defence, he could also be a marauding strokeplayer who loved tearing spinners apart. Dubbed a strokeless wonder at the start of his Test career in 1983-84, he returned with a vengeance in the 1987 World Cup, where he began with four fifties in a row, hitting over the top merrily. Eventually, in a career spanning 51 Tests and 136 one-day internationals, both sides of his personality played themselves out. Sidhu's finest moment in Tests was his 201 against West Indies in 1996-97, an act of supreme endurance lasting 11 hours. And his ruthlessness against spinners was legion. He cracked eight sixes in 124 against Sri Lanka - Muralitharan and all - in 1993-94, and hammered four fifties in five innings against the Australians in 1997-98, singling out Shane Warne for a personalised spanking. In his second career as a commentator, though, only the ebullience was in evidence, as Sidhu began mauling the spoken word with a unique, entertaining concoction of mixed metaphors and garbled clichés.
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Career Averages
Batting & Fielding
Format | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s | Ct | St |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Test | 51 | 78 | 2 | 3202 | 201 | 42.13 | 9 | 15 | 38 | 9 | 0 | |||
ODI | 136 | 127 | 8 | 4413 | 134* | 37.08 | 6329 | 69.72 | 6 | 33 | 335 | 44 | 20 | 0 |
FC | 157 | 228 | 12 | 9571 | 286 | 44.31 | 27 | 50 | 50 | 0 | ||||
List A | 205 | 191 | 19 | 7186 | 139 | 41.77 | 10 | 55 | 31 | 0 |
Bowling
Format | Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10w |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Test | 51 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 0 | - | - | - | 9.00 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
ODI | 136 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.50 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
FC | 157 | 104 | 91 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.25 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
List A | 205 | 10 | 8 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.80 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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