ajay sharma Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
ajay sharma is a cricketer(sportsman) from India. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Ajay Kumar Sharma
Born
April 03, 1964, Delhi
Age
59 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Slow Left arm Orthodox
Playing Role
Middle order Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 1 | 31 | - | - |
Inn | 2 | 27 | - | - |
Runs | 53 | 424 | - | - |
Avg | 26.5 | 20.19 | - | - |
SR | 31.36 | 90.41 | - | - |
HS | 30 | 59 | - | - |
NO | 0 | 6 | - | - |
100s | 0 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 0 | 3 | - | - |
4s | 8 | 26 | - | - |
6s | 0 | 9 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 1 | 31 | - | - |
Inn | 1 | 29 | - | - |
Balls | 24 | 1140 | - | - |
Runs | 9 | 875 | - | - |
Wkt | 0 | 15 | - | - |
BBI | 9 / 0 | 41 / 3 | - | - |
BBM | 9 / 0 | 41 / 3 | - | - |
Eco | 2.25 | 4.61 | - | - |
Avg | 0.0 | 58.33 | - | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Manan Sharma
- India
- Delhi
- Himachal Pradesh
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
He made his Test debut against the West Indies in 1987/88, scoring 30 and 23. However, he never played another Test even though he was outstanding in domestic cricket. In 31 ODIs, Sharma garnered 424 runs with an average just above 20. In December 1988, he scored consectuive fifites against New Zealand, but he could never emulate the same form again.
Sharma was also a slow left-arm orthodox bowler and ended his career with 15 ODI wickets. His best figures of 3/41 came against the Australians in October 1989. He played his last ODI against the West Indies in November 1993.
In 1996/97, he became only the third batsman to score 1000 runs in a Ranji season. He represented Delhi in six Ranji trophy finals, hitting centuries in 4 of them. However, his team only won the trophy twice.
In 2000, Sharma's career came to an abrupt end after he was implicated in a match-fixing scandal. He received a life ban for having connections with bookmakers.
In September 2014, a district court in Delhi cleared Sharma of all charges pertaining to the match-fixing case.
By Sidhant Maheshwari
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Ajay Sharma's career will be seen as one of disappointment. Firstly, that a man whose first-class average was the third-highest of any player to have scored 10,000 runs only played one Test; secondly, that his career ended when he was implicated in the match-fixing scandal which rocked world cricket, receiving a life ban.
His Test debut in 1987-88 was Hirwani's match, although his 30 and 23 gave every indication that he was a batsman to watch. But despite outstanding performances on the domestic circuit, another chance never came. He played 31 ODIs - for some reason becoming pigeonholed as a one-day specialist - with his left-arm spin earmarking him as an allrounder.
His last ODI was in 1993-94, when he was still not 30, but he continued to murder bowlers for Delhi. In 1999-2000 he became the Ranji Trophy's highest runscorer, and his 31 hundreds was also a record. In 1996-97 he had become only the third batsman to score 1000 runs in a Ranji Trophy season.
But in 2000, aged 36, he was banned for life after being found guilty of having associations with bookmakers. It was the final blow from an establishment that Sharma had always seemed to be at odds with. Martin Williamson