ashish nehra Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
ashish nehra is a cricketer(sportsman) from India. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Ashish Nehra
Born
April 29, 1979, Delhi
Age
44 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Left arm Medium fast
Playing Role
Bowler
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 17 | 120 | 27 | 88 |
Inn | 25 | 46 | 5 | 22 |
Runs | 77 | 141 | 28 | 41 |
Avg | 5.5 | 5.64 | 5.6 | 5.86 |
SR | 30.08 | 57.32 | 71.79 | 66.13 |
HS | 19 | 24 | 22 | 22 |
NO | 11 | 21 | 0 | 15 |
100s | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4s | 8 | 12 | 1 | 3 |
6s | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 17 | 120 | 27 | 88 |
Inn | 29 | 120 | 27 | 88 |
Balls | 3447 | 5751 | 588 | 1908 |
Runs | 1866 | 4981 | 758 | 2495 |
Wkt | 44 | 157 | 34 | 106 |
BBI | 72 / 4 | 23 / 6 | 19 / 3 | 10 / 3 |
BBM | 117 / 6 | 23 / 6 | 19 / 3 | 10 / 3 |
Eco | 3.25 | 5.2 | 7.73 | 7.85 |
Avg | 42.41 | 31.73 | 22.29 | 23.54 |
5W | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
10W | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Teams he has played for:
- India
- Asia XI
- Chennai Super Kings
- Delhi
- Delhi Daredevils
- Mumbai Indians
- Pune Warriors
- Sunrisers Hyderabad
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Nehra had a fine 2003 World Cup in South Africa as he used the hard and seaming wickets to good use. Bowling under lights at Durban against England, he produced one of the finest exhibitions of seam and swing bowling ever by an Indian bowler when he ripped through the English middle-order en route to taking 6/23 - which still is his best ever ODI figures. In that same tournament, he also had the distinction of bowling a 149.7 km/h ball - which at that time was the fastest an Indian bowler had bowled.
After having shown so much promise, the frail body of Nehra began to give in with injuries taking a toll on his health. After Zaheer Khan pulled out of the Australian tour in 2004 due to an injury, Nehra was expected to be the spearhead of the attack, but he could not make an impression as first Ajit Agarkar and then Irfan Pathan stole the show. With new comers like Pathan and Balaji doing well, Nehra was pushed down the pecking order as India went to Pakistan in 2004.
After pulling out midway from the tour of Zimbabwe in 2005, he had operations on his ankle and back which ensured that he was out of cricket for a long while. Nehra slowly recovered from all those setbacks and was signed up by the Mumbai Indians to play in the inaugural IPL season. He did pretty well in the first season and moved to the Delhi Daredevils - his home state - to play in the 2nd edition. That proved to be a wise decision as he produced a brilliant display to end up being the 3rd highest wicket taker in the IPL with 19 wickets from 13 games. That performance made the Indian selectors take notice, and he was recalled against the West Indies in an ODI series. From then, he has never looked back. With Zaheer Khan recovering from a shoulder injury, Nehra slowly assumed the role of a spearhead in ODI cricket and was a regular member of the Indian side from June 2009. He was quite consistent since then and cemented his place until the 2011 World Cup. Though he didn't play all the games, he featured in three matches, including the semifinal against Pakistan in which he injured his finger and unfortunately, has never made it to India's playing XI since then.
However, after fully recovering from his injury, he represented the Pune Warriors in the IPL before moving to Delhi Daredevils in 2013. After impressing the men who mattered, being thrown into the auctions pool, Nehra was bought by Chennai Super Kings for 2 crore at the 2014 auctions. He had two good seasons for that franchise and the selectors recalled him for the T20Is against Australia in January 2016. He continued to be part of the Indian squad in the shortest format and spearheaded the bowling attack in the 2016 edition of the T20 World Cup at home.
Nehra (on October 12, 2017) announced that he will retire from all forms of cricket after the first Twenty20 International against New Zealand which is set to be played at the Feroz Shah Kotla on November 1.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Ashish Nehra had most of the virtues of a classical left-arm fast bowler - pace, accuracy, subtle variations of line and length, an ability to move the ball off the wicket, and a devastating late inswinger that could harass the best. But with all those gifts came a curse: a brittle body that may well have contributed to him playing his last Test as early as 2004. Still, T20 cricket, with its cap of only four overs, gave Nehra a lifeline, and at 36 he revived his international career, having rediscovered the ability to move the ball at 140kph, to become one of India's most successful bowlers in the 2016 T20 World Cup.
Nehra came out of his first full tour - to Zimbabwe in 2000-01 - with his reputation as one of the most promising new-ball bowlers on the international circuit vastly enhanced, and his performance in Bulawayo in that series played a key role in India winning a Test outside the subcontinent for the first time in 15 years. He struggled to establish himself thereafter, as inconsistency and injuries saw him slip down the pace-bowling list.
The high point of that difficult period came in the 2003 World Cup against England, where he took 6 for 23. Surgery on a troublesome ankle, and an indifferent tour of Australia, followed. He pulled out midway through the 2005 Zimbabwe tour and had a succession of operations on his ankle that slowed down his career. He hit the headlines with creditable showings in the IPL, particularly in the second season, and was recalled to the ODI squad for the tour of the West Indies in June 2009.
His 31 ODI wickets in 2009 were the most he had ever taken in a year, and he followed it up with 28 in 2010 to establish his place in India's 2011 World Cup squad. He bowled a match-winning spell against Pakistan in the semi-final of that tournament, but his body failed him again - an on-field injury prevented him from playing the final, which India won to become world champions.
In the IPL, Nehra took 22 wickets for Chennai Super Kings in 2015, willing himself back into contention for India, whom he helped whitewash Australia 3-0 in a T20I series in 2015-16. He took that run of fine form into the Asia Cup and the 2016 T20 World Cup before calling it a day.
Nehra moved into coaching in the IPL after that, as bowling coach of Royal Challengers Bangalore for two seasons, and in 2022 was Gujarat Titans head coach when they won the title in their first year in the tournament.