salim durani Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
salim durani is a cricketer(sportsman) from India. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Salim Aziz Durani
Born
December 11, 1934, Kabul, Afghanistan
Died
April 02, 2023, Jamnagar, Gujarat, (aged 88 years old)
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Slow Left arm Orthodox
Playing Role
Allrounder
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 29 | - | - | - |
Inn | 50 | - | - | - |
Runs | 1202 | - | - | - |
Avg | 25.04 | - | - | - |
SR | 0.0 | - | - | - |
HS | 104 | - | - | - |
NO | 2 | - | - | - |
100s | 1 | - | - | - |
50s | 7 | - | - | - |
4s | 126 | - | - | - |
6s | 15 | - | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 29 | - | - | - |
Inn | 46 | - | - | - |
Balls | 6446 | - | - | - |
Runs | 2657 | - | - | - |
Wkt | 75 | - | - | - |
BBI | 73 / 6 | - | - | - |
BBM | 177 / 10 | - | - | - |
Eco | 2.47 | - | - | - |
Avg | 35.43 | - | - | - |
5W | 3 | - | - | - |
10W | 1 | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- India
- Gujarat
- Rajasthan
- Saurashtra
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Even after the partition, Durani (Jnr) continued to live in Jamnagar. However, his father made his move to Karachi and became well-known as a coach. It is believed that one of his students was none other than the legendary opening batsman from Pakistan, Hanif Mohammad. Durani made his Test debut at the age of 25 against a Richie Benaud-led Australian side in Mumbai in 1960. Interestingly, he got his chance only because Jasu Patel, the off-spinner, who had turned the previous Test match played in Kanpur in India's favour with a bagful of wickets, was down with food poisoning.
Durani's greatest moment came in the series against England in 1961-62. If he took eight wickets in Kolkata, then in the next game in Chennai, he ended up with a 10-for. India tasted victory in that series. In 1962, Durani also registered his one and only Test hundred against West Indies in Port of Spain, Trinidad. In 1966 though, after playing with guts and gumption against Charlie Griffith and Wes Hall to score a fifty in a Test match in Mumbai, he suffered a knee injury and with the selectors looking out for younger players, he soon found himself in the wilderness.
Durani though, made a sterling comeback into the side by playing a key role in India's first ever Test win against West Indies in Port of Spain, Trinidad, 1971. It was his double strike to remove Clive Lloyd and Garry Sobers in the second innings that paved the way for India to achieve a historic victory. Durani played his last Test against England at the Brabourne stadium in Mumbai in 1973. In fact, he had made his Test debut, too, at the same stadium.
Even now, connoisseurs fondly remember Durani for his six-hitting prowess. In 1973, when he was dropped for a Test match in Kanpur, the crowd had shouted, \"No Durani, no Test!\". Durani was also known for his dashing looks and acted in a film called Charitra opposite Parveen Babi in 1973. Durani was the first ever cricketer to win the Arjuna Award. In 2011, he was honoured with the C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award by the BCCI.
By Bharath Ramaraj
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
An unpredictable genius, Salim Durrani was on his day a match winner either with the bat or the ball. He was one of the few cricketers who could turn the course of a match either by a few lusty blows or by a couple of wickets in one over. To the stodgy, fairly predictable image of the Indian cricketer, Durrani by his dash and vigorous play, injected an element of excitement into the game. An aggressive left handed batsman, who could demolish the best of bowlers and who acquired the reputation of hitting sixes on demand, Durrani in full flow was a joy to watch. But it was as a bowler that he first made his mark in Indian cricket. He ambled in to bowl with a lazy action but the best of his deliveries beggared description. For Durrani, having delivered the ball from his great height could make the ball lift and turn.
Durrani bowled India to victory over England in 1961-62, successively picking up eight and ten wickets in the country's triumphs at Calcutta and Madras. Almost ten years later he helped shaped another notable victory - this time over West Indies at Port of Spain - by dismissing Clive Lloyd and Gary Sobers, the latter for a duck. His only century in Tests was against West Indies in 1962. Durrani had a special rapport with the spectators, who once agitated, when he was inexplicably dropped for the Kanpur Test in 1973, with placards and slogans like ``No Durrani, no Test''. A tall, handsome figure, Durrani had movie star looks and in fact appeared in a film with Parveen Babi in the early 70s.(Partab Ramchand)