Ajay Sharma
Personal information
Full name
Ajay Kumar Sharma
Born (1964-04-03) 3 April 1964
Delhi, India
BowlingSlow left-arm orthodox
RoleBatsman
RelationsManan Sharma (son)
International information
National side
Only Test (cap 182)11 January 1988 v West Indies
ODI debut (cap 64)2 January 1988 v West Indies
Last ODI16 November 1998 v West Indies
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1984–2000Delhi
2000–2001Himachal Pradesh
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 1 31 129 113
Runs scored 53 424 10,120 2,814
Batting average 26.5 20.19 67.46 36.07
100s/50s 0/0 0/3 38/36 2/20
Top score 30 59 259* 135*
Balls bowled 24 1,140 6,438 3,985
Wickets 0 15 87 108
Bowling average – 58.33 31.01 28.37
5 wickets in innings – 0 1 2
10 wickets in match – 0 0 0
Best bowling – 3/41 5/34 5/30
Catches/stumpings 0/– 26/– 94/– 43/–
Source: CricketArchive, 14 December 2009

Ajay Kumar Sharma (pronunciationⓘ) (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]

Domestic career

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

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

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

References

  1. ↑ "Ajay Sharma (CricketArchive)". Retrieved 9 June 2006.
  2. ↑ Ranji Trophy - Most Hundreds CricketArchive
  3. ↑ Ajay Sharma in elite company ESPNcricinfo
  4. ↑ Breakup of Ajay Sharma's first-class statistics ESPNcricinfo
  5. ↑ 4th Test: India v West Indies at Chennai, 11-15 January 1988 ESPNcricinfo
  6. ↑ Ajay Sharma - ODI innings-by-innings batting list Statsguru, ESPNcricinfo
  7. ↑ India v Australia at Bangalore, 27 October 1989 ESPNcricinfo
  8. ↑ "Ajay Sharma".
  9. ↑ "Padiham withdraw Sharma contract".
  10. ↑ "Ajay Sharma cleared in match-fixing case".
  11. ↑ "Remembering KP Bhaskar".
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