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Full name Navjot Singh Sidhu
Born October 20, 1963, Patiala, Punjab
Current age 45 years 29 days
Major teams India,Punjab
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Other Commentator
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
51
78
2
3202
201
42.13
9
15
38
9
0
ODIs
136
127
8
4413
134*
37.08
6329
69.72
6
33
335
44
20
0
First-class
157
228
12
9571
286
44.31
27
50
50
0
List A
205
191
19
7186
139
41.77
10
55
31
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
51
1
6
9
0
-
-
-
9.00
-
0
0
0
ODIs
136
2
4
3
0
-
-
-
4.50
-
0
0
0
First-class
157
104
91
0
-
-
-
5.25
-
0
0
0
List A
205
10
8
0
-
-
-
4.80
-
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
India v West Indies at Ahmedabad, Nov 12-16, 1983 scorecard
Last Test
New Zealand v India at Hamilton, Jan 2-6, 1999 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
India v Australia at Chennai, Oct 9, 1987 scorecard
Last ODI
India v Pakistan at Toronto, Sep 20, 1998 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1981/82 - 1999/00
List A span
1983/84 - 1999/00
Profile
Navjot Singh Sidhu's cricket had a schizophrenic touch to it. A dour batsman capable of dogged defence, he could also be a marauding strokeplayer who loved tearing spinners apart. Dubbed a strokeless wonder at the start of his Test career in 1983-84, he returned with a vengeance in the 1987 World Cup, where he began with four fifties in a row, hitting over the top merrily. Eventually, in a career spanning 51 Tests and 136 one-day internationals, both sides of his personality played themeselves out. Sidhu's finest moment in Tests was his 201 against West Indies in 1996-97, an act of supreme endurance lasting 11 hours. And his ruthlessness against spinners was legion. He cracked eight sixes in 124 against Sri Lanka - Muralitharan and all - in 1993-94, and hammered four fifties in five innings against the Australians in 1997-98, singling out Shane Warne for a personalised spanking. In his second career as a commentator, though, only the ebullience was in evidence, as Sidhu began mauling the spoken word with a unique, entertaining concoction of mixed metaphors and garbled clichés. Amit Varma
