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Full name Aunshuman Dattajirao Gaekwad
Born September 23, 1952, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Current age 56 years 56 days
Major teams India,Baroda
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Relations Father - DK Gaekwad,Son - SA Gaekwad
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
6s
Ct
St
Tests
40
70
4
1985
201
30.07
2
10
0
15
0
ODIs
15
14
1
269
78*
20.69
509
52.84
0
1
6
0
First-class
206
326
34
12136
225
41.56
34
47
160
0
List A
55
53
4
1601
111*
32.67
2
12
17
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
40
17
334
187
2
1/4
1/4
93.50
3.35
167.0
0
0
0
ODIs
15
1
48
39
1
1/39
1/39
39.00
4.87
48.0
0
0
0
First-class
206
10649
4587
143
6/49
32.07
2.58
74.4
3
0
List A
55
537
343
22
4/23
4/23
15.59
3.83
24.4
3
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
India v West Indies at Kolkata, Dec 27, 1974 - Jan 1, 1975 scorecard
Last Test
India v England at Kolkata, Dec 31, 1984 - Jan 5, 1985 scorecard
India v West Indies at Guwahati, Dec 23, 1987 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1969/70 - 1991/92
List A span
1974/75 - 1988/89
Profile
Aunshuman Gaekwad's scoring range was limited and his batting lacked elegance, but raw courage against pace that he possessed was a precious commodity in Indian cricket, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he made it into the team on that virtue alone. He also had terrific reserves of patience and concentration - he batted 671 minutes for his Test-best 201 against Pakistan at Jalandhar in 1982-83. This was then the slowest double-century in first-class cricket. Gaekwad's guts-and-glory saga reached its peak when, bruised and battered by Michael Holding's modern-day Bodyline in the 1975-76 Jamaica bloodbath, he scored 81, a feat rendered doubly impressive by the fact that it came in an era when there were neither helmets nor restrictions on bouncers. Gaekwad had to have an operation after he was tattooed on the ear by a Holding bouncer that punctured his eardrum. He signed off on a high, with a hundred in his last first-class match and later became a selector and the national coach.
H Natarajan
