Ajit Agarkar

Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar was born on 4 December 1977 in Bombay. He is an Indian cricketer. Slight, fiery and gifted, he is a Right-arm fast-medium bowler and also bats right handed.

Early in his career, Agarkar set a world record for the fastest 50 wickets in One-day International matches (ODIs). Batting at number eight, he scored an unbeaten Test century at Lord's in 2002.

He made his debut on April 1st 1998 in Kochi ( the first International one-day game played at the Nehru Stadium there). Though Agarkar was hit for a few runs, he ended up with the crucial wicket of Adam Gilchrist.

Agarkar also holds another world ODI record, which is the quickest in terms of least number of matches taken to take 200 wickets and complete 1000 runs. Agarkar achieved this feet in 133 matches breaking the previous record held by South African Shaun Pollock, who accomplished this feat in his 138th match.

A resident of Narayan Pujari Nagar on Worli Seaface, he was raised by his grandparents at Shivaji Park where many a great cricketer practised and went on to play for India. He is an alumnus of Ruparel College in Matunga, Mumbai.

Agarkar has had a generally poor Test career, with the exception of some performances against Australia in the 1999 series and also the Adelaide Test in 2003. At Adelaide in 2003, Agarkar took 6/41 to set up India's first Test win in Australia in over two decades. However, Agarkar has done decently in ODI cricket, where he takes wickets regularly, although he can be expensive. He recently made a comeback to the one day side, and appears more consistent than previously in his career. He was the pick of the bowlers in the one day series during India's tour of West Indies in 2006. He is now a regular member of the Indian one day side.

Agarkar is married to Fatima Ghadially and has ason Raj.

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Batting and fielding averages

class	mat	inns	no	runs	hs	ave	bf	sr	100	50	4s	6s	ct	st
Tests	26	39	5	571	109*	16.79	1081	52.82	1	0	83	3	6	0
ODIs	178	107	26	1240	95	15.30	1509	82.17	0	3	101	22	48	0
Twenty20 Int.	1	0	0	0	0	-	0	-	0	0	0	0	0	0
First-class	72	94	16	1945	109*	24.93			2	8			26	0
List A	231	145	39	1984	95	18.71			0	8			60	0
Twenty20	1	0	0	0	0	-	0	-	0	0	0	0	0	0

Bowling averages

class	mat	balls	runs	wkts	bbi	bbm	ave	econ	sr	4	5	10
Tests	26	4857	2745	58	6/41	8/160	47.32	3.39	83.74	0	1	0
ODIs	178	8782	7402	270	6/42	6/42	27.41	5.05	32.52	9	2	0
Twenty20 Int.	1	15	10	2	2/10	2/10	5.00	4.00	7.50	0	0	0
First-class	72	12401	6328	222	6/41		28.50	3.06	55.86		10	0
List A	231	11298	9385	354	6/18	6/18	26.51	4.98	31.91	9	3	0
Twenty20	1	15	10	2	2/10	2/10	5.00	4.00	7.50	0	0	0

Career statistics


Test debut	Zimbabwe v India at Harare - Oct 7-10, 1998
Last Test	Pakistan v India at Lahore - Jan 13-17, 2006
ODI debut	India v Australia at Kochi - Apr 1, 1998
Last ODI	India v West Indies at Vadodara - Jan 31, 2007
Only Twenty20 Int.	South Africa v India at Johannesburg - Dec 1, 2006
First-class span	1996/97 - 2006/07
List A span	1996/97 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2006/07 Stats valid as of Jan 17 2007

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