Sarandeep Singh

Sarandeep Singh

India

Full name Sarandeep Singh
Born October 21, 1979, Amritsar, Punjab
Current age 27 years 130 days
Major teams India, Delhi, Punjab
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	3	2	1	43	39*	43.00	136	31.61	0	0	1	0	1	0
ODIs	5	4	1	47	19	15.66	73	64.38	0	0	6	0	2	0
First-class	75	92	18	1764	94	23.83			0	6			26	0
List A	58	33	10	297	27*	12.91			0	0			22	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	3	678	340	10	4/136	6/206	34.00	3.00	67.80	1	0	0
ODIs	5	258	180	3	2/34	2/34	60.00	4.18	86.00	0	0	0
First-class	75	16494	7525	260	8/180		28.94	2.73	63.43		17	2
List A	58	2810	1975	83	5/11	5/11	23.79	4.21	33.85	1	2	0

Career statistics
Test debut	India v Zimbabwe at Nagpur - Nov 25-29, 2000
Last Test	West Indies v India at Georgetown - Apr 11-15, 2002
ODI debut	India v England at Delhi - Jan 31, 2002
Last ODI	India v South Africa at Dhaka - Apr 18, 2003
First-class span	1998/99 - 2006/07
List A span	1999/00 - 2006/07

Profile

When Sharandeep Singh made his debut at Nagpur, it was the first time in almost six months that India were playing a specialist off spinner. Brought on almost as an afterthought by his skipper, when Zimbabwe had already reached 145, Sharandeep started impeccably with four maidens. He struck twice in ten balls soon after, extracting turn and bite to keep the close cordon busy, and ended the game with six wickets. Blooded into first class cricket against Haryana at Amritsar in 1998-99, Sharandeep made 45, a legacy of having started his career as a batsman in junior cricket, but went wicketless. A superb spell against Hyderabad in the Super League quickly made pundits sit up and take notice, his match haul of eight wickets taking Punjab to the brink of victory but the effort being thwarted by the fickleness of the batsmen who failed to chase a target of 176. Before the season was out, Sharandeep was playing for the India Under-19s against the touring Sri Lankans.

Sharandeep's 37 victims at 19.43 in the 1999-2000 Ranji Trophy, just his second season in first class cricket, thrust him into the national reckoning. His swift rise was recognised by the National Cricket Academy which selected him amongst its first batch of trainees in May 2000, a tough four month grind punctuated by lessons from such masters of the craft like Pras and Venkat. After impressing in the 2001 domestic season, Sharandeep at last might get the chance to prove his undoubted ability in the series against England. The Indian selectors have already taken the first step in that direction by naming him in the final fourteen for the Mohali Test. It is now over to the team management and to the burgundy-turbaned spinner.(Sankhya Krishnan)