Ajay Sharma

Ajay Sharma

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Ajay Sharma Profile

  • Name:
  • Ajay Sharma
  • Born:
  • April 3, 1964
  • Born / Home Town:
  • Delhi

Ajay Sharma Biography

Ajay Sharma is an Indian cricketer who has retired from international cricket. He is better known for his batting records in First class cricket. He played for Delhi scoring more than 10,000 runs at an average of 67.46. In the 50 over game, only three cricketers have bettered this average in first-class cricket - (Sir Donald Bradman, Vijay Merchant and George Headley). He has also scored 31 centuries in Ranji trophy with a batting average of 80, only second to Vijay Merchant. Though he was an outstanding player in domestic cricket, he got only few opportunities to play in Indian cricket team. His career virtually ended with a lifetime ban in 2000 for a match-fixing scandal. He was 36 then.

 

Ajay Sharma was born on 3rd April, 1964 in Delhi. He was a right handed batsman for the team who occasionally bowls as well. Sharma only played one Test match for India - against the West Indies in January 1988 where he managed to score 53 runs from the innings collectively. But later he was not given opportunity in test matches. He played 31 One Day Internationals for India from 1988 to 1993 where only three of those innings could be converted to half centuries. His career best still remains 59 not out, which was not enough to sustain his career in ODIs. He batted at no.6 and has scored 424 runs total in One-day matches at an average of only 20.19.

 

But he holds an outstanding record in Ranji trophy and first class cricket. In the 1996-97 season, he became only the third player to score over 1000 runs in a Ranji Trophy season. He has played for Delhi in 6 Ranji trophy finals, but only two resulted in wins. He has also scored four centuries in Ranji trophy finals for Delhi. Sharma's son Manan Sharma is now playing for Delhi team and has been selected to India's Under-19 team.

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Updated: January 24, 2014

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