aakash chopra Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
aakash chopra is a cricketer(sportsman) from India. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Aakash Chopra
Born
September 19, 1977, Agra, Uttar Pradesh
Age
46 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium, Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 10 | - | - | 7 |
Inn | 19 | - | - | 6 |
Runs | 437 | - | - | 53 |
Avg | 23.0 | - | - | 8.83 |
SR | 34.6 | - | - | 74.65 |
HS | 60 | - | - | 24 |
NO | 0 | - | - | 0 |
100s | 0 | - | - | 0 |
50s | 2 | - | - | 0 |
4s | 49 | - | - | 7 |
6s | 0 | - | - | 0 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 10 | - | - | 7 |
Inn | - | - | - | - |
Balls | - | - | - | - |
Runs | - | - | - | - |
Wkt | - | - | - | - |
BBI | - | - | - | - |
BBM | - | - | - | - |
Eco | - | - | - | - |
Avg | - | - | - | - |
5W | - | - | - | - |
10W | - | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- India
- Delhi
- Himachal Pradesh
- Kolkata Knight Riders
- Marylebone Cricket Club
- Rajasthan
- Rajasthan Royals
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
A knee injury kept him out of the side at the end of the 2002/03 season, but Chopra impressed everyone in the brief 2-Test home affair against New Zealand and was picked for the historic tour of Australia in 2003/04 - India's final frontier. A series remembered more for Dravid's heroics and Sehwag's pyrotechnics, Aakash Chopra played the unsung hero of the tour which saw India come as close as they ever have to a Test series win in Australia. Chopra failed to get past 50 in 8 innings, but therein lies the importance of assessing top-order players qualitatively in a world that demands statistics. His primary function was to see off the new ball and build a solid platform worked well with Sehwag, helping him whack the leather off it at the other end, and therefore he was a vital cog in India's retention of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia in 2003/04.
Unfortunately, the lack of big scores and aggressive shots to back his solid technique, and his apparently one-dimensional game, meant that India would look at more aggressive options such as Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif going forward, and Aakash Chopra became a chronic fringe player in the Indian dressing room. He was made the scapegoat after an unimpressive performance in the home series against Australia, and Gautam Gambhir was picked in his stead. Chopra continued to work on his game, and three years since, he was picked for India's A tour of South Africa where he scored an unbeaten double century.
Chopra continued his blistering run of form with 783 runs in the 2007/08 Ranji season and Delhi won the title as well, but it was a time when India's focus was youth, and they had a stable opening combination in Sehwag and Gambhir. Given that, even 310 runs in the Duleep Trophy, and helping North Zone to victory could not redeem Chopra's international career. The stoic opener finally called it quits and was signed by the Kolkata Knight Riders in the inaugural IPL of 2008. After failing to perform with the bat in a youth-dominated league, Chopra figured that this wasn't his cup of tea, and retired from all forms of cricket. He is now a well-known critic, commentator and author as he continues to spread his knowledge of the game.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
An opener in the classical mould, Aakash Chopra has a technique and temperament perfectly suited to occupation of the crease and seeing the shine off the leather. Those attributes came handy for him, and for India, just when they were hunting desperately for a pair of good openers. After a right-knee injury had laid him low at the end of 2002-03, Chopra started the new season with a sound batting display in the two-Test series at home against New Zealand. That earned him a ticket to Australia, where he enhanced his reputation further by providing solid starts in partnership with Virender Sehwag, his Delhi team-mate.
Although he failed to cross the 50-mark in the four Tests against Australia, he showed enough patience to spend valuable time in the middle, see off the new ball and build a solid platform from which the strong middle order could elevate India to greater heights. He also proved to be an outstanding close-in fielder, invoking comparisons with the legendary Eknath Solkar.
Unfortunately, the advent of Yuvraj Singh as a match-turning batsman on the tour of Pakistan in 2004 meant that Chopra was relegated to the status of squad player. He was dropped from the team after an unimpressive performance in the home series against Australia in 2004. Three years since, he was picked to open for India A in the unofficial Tests against South Africa. In the only completed match against South Africa A, he scored an unbeaten double century. The 2007-8 season continued to be prosperous for Chopra: 783 runs in Delhi's title-winning Ranji Trophy campaign; 332 runs at a whopping 332.00, with three hundreds at a strike-rate above 100, in the one-day version; 310 runs in the Duleep Trophy, helping North to victory. Chopra was then signed on by the Kolkata Knight Riders, of the lucrative Indian Premier League.
Nagraj Gollapudi March 2008