Murali Kartik

Murali Kartik

India

Player profile

Full name Murali Kartik
Born September 11, 1976, Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu
Current age 30 years 170 days
Major teams India, Lancashire, Railways
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	8	10	1	88	43	9.77	231	38.09	0	0	11	0	2	0
ODIs	30	11	4	89	32*	12.71	130	68.46	0	0	6	0	10	0
First-class	103	121	15	1973	96	18.61			0	11			62	0
List A	122	55	18	386	37*	10.43			0	0			42	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	8	1932	820	24	4/44	7/76	34.16	2.54	80.50	1	0	0
ODIs	30	1530	1312	27	3/36	3/36	48.59	5.14	56.66	0	0	0
First-class	103	22290	8837	348	9/70		25.39	2.37	64.05		20	3
List A	122	6324	4663	149	5/29	5/29	31.29	4.42	42.44	2	1	0

Career statistics
Test debut	India v South Africa at Mumbai - Feb 24-26, 2000
Last Test	India v South Africa at Kanpur - Nov 20-24, 2004
ODI debut	India v Zimbabwe at Hyderabad (Decc) - Mar 16, 2002
Last ODI	Pakistan v India at Peshawar - Feb 6, 2006
First-class span	1996/97 - 2006/07
List A span	1996/97 - 2006/07

Profile

A left-arm spinner in the classical mould, Murali Kartik has long been on the fringes of the national team. He has a high-arm action straight from the coaching manual, and possesses all the weapons in his armoury - the tantalising loop, the ability to extract sharp turn and bounce, and the subtle variations. But he hasn't always had the breaks, and has regularly played the understudy to Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh. Kartik forced his way into the Indian team in 1999-2000 after impressive performances in the domestic games, but didn't seem to enjoy his captain's confidence and was either used as a defensive option or underbowled. He made his mark as a one-day bowler against West Indies in 2002-03, consistently keeping the batsmen in check on pitches where every other bowler got tonked for plenty. However, his best moment clearly came at Mumbai, against Australia in 2004-05. Enjoying the confidence reposed in him by Rahul Dravid, the captain, Kartik ran through the Australian batting on a dustbowl, taking seven wickets in the match to bowl India to a famous win.