chetan chauhan Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
chetan chauhan is a cricketer(sportsman) from India. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Chetandra Pratap Singh Chauhan
Born
July 21, 1947, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
Died
August 16, 2020, Gurugram, (aged 73 years old)
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Offbreak
Playing Role
Opening Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 40 | 7 | - | - |
Inn | 68 | 7 | - | - |
Runs | 2084 | 153 | - | - |
Avg | 31.58 | 21.86 | - | - |
SR | 54.0 | 50.83 | - | - |
HS | 97 | 46 | - | - |
NO | 2 | 0 | - | - |
100s | 0 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 16 | 0 | - | - |
4s | 205 | 6 | - | - |
6s | 1 | 0 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 40 | 7 | - | - |
Inn | 10 | - | - | - |
Balls | 174 | - | - | - |
Runs | 106 | - | - | - |
Wkt | 2 | - | - | - |
BBI | 4 / 1 | - | - | - |
BBM | 4 / 1 | - | - | - |
Eco | 3.66 | - | - | - |
Avg | 53.0 | - | - | - |
5W | 0 | - | - | - |
10W | 0 | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Pururaj Singh
- India
- Delhi
- Maharashtra
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
He made his debut against New Zealand in 1969 but was dropped after two Tests. Later in the season, he was chosen to play against Australia, but failed to perform and was dropped for a period of three years. He was once again drafted into the Indian team during 1972/73, owing to his stellar form in the Ranji season. Chauhan played 2 Tests against England but failed to make a mark and was once again dropped. In 1976–77, playing with a fractured jaw, he scored 158 against Haryana. Later that season, he scored 200 against Punjab and 147 versus Karnataka as well. Another hundred in Duleep Trophy early next season earned him a place in the Indian team going to Australia and then began Chauhan's most impressive period with the bat.
In his first match of the tour, he made 157 against Victoria, a gritty knock that included only two fours. He was selected in the playing eleven for the second Test and made 88 runs in his very first innings at Perth. From there on, he became Gavaskar's regular opening partner and only missed one Test match till the end of his career. Chauhan and Gavaskar's best opening partnership came against England in 1979. Chasing a mammoth target of 438 in the fourth innings at the Oval, they added 213 for the opening wicket. The match though ended in a draw as India missed the target by nine runs.
Playing against Australia in 1980-81, Chauhan made 249 runs in three Tests. His highest score in Tests came at Adelaide, where he missed out on his century by 3 runs. In the next Test at Melbourne, Chauhan and Gavaskar added 165 runs for the first wicket before the latter was given out lbw. Gavaskar was extremely unhappy with the decision and asked Chauhan to leave the field with him. Indian manager Wing Commander Shahid Durrani had to intervene and avoided an awkward situation by convincing Chauhan to go back. India toured New Zealand after this trip, where Chauhan could only manage one 50-plus score and that was the last we saw of him in the Indian team.
Chauhan may have garnered 2084 Test runs during his career, but he also holds the dubious distinction of being the first player in Test history to score 2000+ runs without a century. His last first-class game was the Ranji final against Bombay in 1985. Batting with a fractured finger, he made 98 and 54 in that match.
A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Chauhan was a Member of the Lok Sabha from Amroha (Uttar Pradesh) in 1991 and 1998. He is also a recipient of the Arjuna Award.
By Sidhant Maheshwari
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
One of the most courageous opening batsmen in Indian cricket, Chetan Chauhan will be chiefly remembered as Sunil Gavaskar's partner in numerous Tests in the '70s and early '80s. Until the Sehwag-Gambhir combine came along, the pair was the most successful Indian opening duo in Test cricket with ten century partnerships.
Chauhan had technical limitations and his strokeplay was not exactly fluent. But no one could question his courage, his defence and his ability to get behind the line of the ball. He was always a difficult batsman to dislodge and his patience and dogged qualities stood India in very good stead in 40 Tests in the period 1969 to 1981. He made his debut as a 22-year-old against New Zealand at Mumbai and also played against Australia the same season. He was recalled for two Tests against England in 1972-73 but his most prolific period began when he was chosen for the tour of Australia in 1977-78.
The crowning glory of the Gavaskar-Chauhan partnership came at The Oval in 1979 when they put on 213, breaking the famous long-standing record of Merchant and Mushtaq Ali who put on 203 runs at Old Trafford in 1936. Chauhan's share was 80. He was unlucky not to get a Test hundred, though his aggregate in Tests exceeded 2000 runs (he was the first player in Test history to score more than 2000 runs without a hundred).
He was a heavy run-getter in domestic cricket, and represented Maharashtra and Delhi in the Ranji Trophy competition. After retiring, Chauhan became a selector from North Zone and was elected to Parliament on a BJP ticket. He died in August 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, from complications arising out of the disease.
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