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Full name Murali Kartik
Born September 11, 1976, Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu
Current age 32 years 68 days
Major teams India,India Green,Kolkata Knight Riders,Lancashire,Middlesex,Railways
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
8
10
1
88
43
9.77
231
38.09
0
0
11
0
2
0
ODIs
37
14
5
126
32*
14.00
178
70.78
0
0
10
1
10
0
T20Is
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
0
0
First-class
126
151
21
2431
96
18.70
0
11
86
0
List A
158
75
26
541
37*
11.04
0
0
48
0
Twenty20
26
5
1
31
17
7.75
28
110.71
0
0
3
0
11
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
8
15
1932
820
24
4/44
7/76
34.16
2.54
80.5
1
0
0
ODIs
37
36
1907
1612
37
6/27
6/27
43.56
5.07
51.5
0
1
0
T20Is
1
1
24
27
0
-
-
-
6.75
-
0
0
0
First-class
126
27606
11140
429
9/70
25.96
2.42
64.3
24
3
List A
158
8093
5853
194
6/27
6/27
30.17
4.33
41.7
2
2
0
Twenty20
26
24
514
584
28
5/13
5/13
20.85
6.81
18.3
0
1
0
Career statistics
Test debut
India v South Africa at Mumbai, Feb 24-26, 2000 scorecard
Last Test
India v South Africa at Kanpur, Nov 20-24, 2004 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
India v Zimbabwe at Hyderabad (Decc), Mar 16, 2002 scorecard
Last ODI
India v Pakistan at Jaipur, Nov 18, 2007 scorecard
ODI statistics
Only T20I
India v Australia at Mumbai (BS), Oct 20, 2007 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut
1996/97
Last First-class
Karnataka v Railways at Bangalore, Nov 3-6, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
1996/97
Last List A
Sussex v Middlesex at Hove, Sep 11, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Surrey v Middlesex at The Oval, Jun 22, 2007 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Middlesex v Trinidad & Tobago at Coolidge, Oct 27, 2008 scorecard
Profile
A left-arm spinner in the classical mould, Murali Kartik has long been on the fringes of the national team. He has a high-arm action straight from the coaching manual, and possesses all the weapons in his armoury. But he hasn't always had the breaks, and has regularly played the understudy to Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh.
Kartik forced his way into the Indian team in 1999-2000 after impressive performances in the domestic games, but didn't seem to enjoy Sourav Ganguly's confidence and was either used as a defensive option or underbowled. He made his mark as a one-day bowler against West Indies in 2002-03, consistently keeping the batsmen in check on flat pitches. However, his best moment clearly came at Mumbai, against Australia in 2004-05 when he ran through the Australian batting on a dustbowl, taking seven wickets in the match to bowl India to a famous win. However he got to play just one Test more before being consigned to the periphery. His stint with Middlesex in 2007, though, brought him back into contention and his 12 wickets at 20.75 from eight Pro40 games allowed him to break back into the Indian one-day side in the middle of the seven-match series against Australia in October 2007. He was part of Middlesex's Twenty20-winning squad in 2008 and, uniquely, the only player in the world to play in the IPL and Stanford 20/20 in the inaugural season.
S Rajesh October 2008
