Ajit Agarkar

Ajit Agarkar

India

Full name Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar
Born December 4, 1977, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Current age 29 years 86 days
Major teams India, Middlesex, Mumbai
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	26	39	5	571	109*	16.79	1081	52.82	1	0	83	3	6	0
ODIs	180	107	26	1240	95	15.30	1509	82.17	0	3	101	22	49	0
Twenty20 Int.	1	0	0	0	0	-	0	-	0	0	0	0	0	0
First-class	72	94	16	1945	109*	24.93			2	8			26	0
List A	233	145	39	1984	95	18.71			0	8			61	0
Twenty20	1	0	0	0	0	-	0	-	0	0	0	0	0	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	26	4857	2745	58	6/41	8/160	47.32	3.39	83.74	0	1	0
ODIs	180	8902	7494	272	6/42	6/42	27.55	5.05	32.72	9	2	0
Twenty20 Int.	1	15	10	2	2/10	2/10	5.00	4.00	7.50	0	0	0
First-class	72	12401	6328	222	6/41		28.50	3.06	55.86		10	0
List A	233	11418	9477	356	6/18	6/18	26.62	4.98	32.07	9	3	0
Twenty20	1	15	10	2	2/10	2/10	5.00	4.00	7.50	0	0	0

Career statistics
Test debut	Zimbabwe v India at Harare - Oct 7-10, 1998
Last Test	Pakistan v India at Lahore - Jan 13-17, 2006
ODI debut	India v Australia at Kochi - Apr 1, 1998
Last ODI	India v Sri Lanka at Visakhapatnam - Feb 17, 2007
Only Twenty20 Int.	South Africa v India at Johannesburg - Dec 1, 2006
First-class span	1996/97 - 2006/07
List A span	1996/97 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2006/07

Profile

Slight, fiery and gifted, Ajit Agarkar is still coming to terms with being Kapil Dev's replacement as India's matchwinner with bat and ball. The ingredients are there, and in the right proportions, but are yet to form a heady and long-lasting mix. Agarkar's entry into international cricket - with an avalanche of wickets that made him the fastest to 50 in ODIs - was matched for speed only by an astonishing batting slump that saw him collect seven consecutive Test ducks against Australia. But India knows he can bat, because tailenders simply do not score half-centuries in 21 balls, as Agarkar did in a one-day game against Zimbabwe, or score Test centuries at Lord's, as Agarkar did in some style in 2002. His aggression is an asset, but the body cannot sometimes support it. Over the last couple of years he's turned into a one-day specialist - arguably India's most effective ODI bowler since 2005 - and occasionally chipped in with the bat as well.