Ajay Sharma
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| Full name | Ajay Sharma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 April 1964 Delhi, India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Slow left-arm orthodox | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Manan Sharma (son) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Only Test (cap 182) | 11 January 1988 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 64) | 2 January 1988 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 16 November 1998 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1984–2000 | Delhi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ajay Kumar Sharma (<phonos file="Ajay_Sharma.ogg">pronunciation</phonos>) (born 3 April 1964) is a former Indian cricketer.
Sharma was a prolific run-maker in first-class cricket, mainly for Delhi, scoring over 10,000 runs, at an average of 67.46.[1] He was a part of the Indian squad which won the 1988 Asia Cup.
Domestic career
[edit | edit source]In the Ranji Trophy, Sharma scored a record 31 centuries[2] and his batting average of approximately 80 in the competition is second only to Vijay Merchant.[3][4] In the 1996–97 season, he became only the third player to score over 1,000 runs in a Ranji Trophy season. He played in six Ranji Trophy finals for Delhi, scoring centuries in four of them, but only twice ended up on the winning side (1985–86 and 1991–92). Sharma also regularly represented North Zone in the Duleep Trophy.
International career
[edit | edit source]Despite his strong domestic record, Sharma only played one Test match for India - against the West Indies in January 1988.[5] He played 31 One Day Internationals for India from 1988 to 1993.
In December 1988, he scored back-to-back fifties against New Zealand, but he did not reach those heights again except for a 59 not out (his highest ODI score) against Zimbabwe in March 1993.[6] He finished with 424 runs at a batting average of 20.19. Sharma also took 15 wickets using his left-arm spin with a best of 3/41 against Australia in October 1989.[7]
Life ban
[edit | edit source]In 2000, aged 36, his career ended when he received a life ban from cricket after he was implicated in a match-fixing scandal.[8][9]
In September 2014, Sharma was cleared from all charges related to match-fixing by Delhi district court and has asked the BCCI to allow him to take part in the board's activities and those of its associates.[10][11]
He retired from active cricket and is now invested in running multiple franchises of laundry and dry-cleaning brand UClean in Delhi NCR and Punjab.
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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- ^ Ranji Trophy - Most Hundreds CricketArchive
- ^ Ajay Sharma in elite company ESPNcricinfo
- ^ Breakup of Ajay Sharma's first-class statistics ESPNcricinfo
- ^ 4th Test: India v West Indies at Chennai, 11-15 January 1988 ESPNcricinfo
- ^ Ajay Sharma - ODI innings-by-innings batting list Statsguru, ESPNcricinfo
- ^ India v Australia at Bangalore, 27 October 1989 ESPNcricinfo
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