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Full name Vinod Ganpat Kambli
Born January 18, 1972, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Current age 36 years 225 days
Major teams India,Boland,Mumbai
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
17
21
1
1084
227
54.20
4
3
124
6
7
0
ODIs
104
97
21
2477
106
32.59
3443
71.94
2
14
187
20
15
0
First-class
129
181
14
9965
262
59.67
35
44
56
0
List A
221
204
47
6476
149*
41.24
11
35
50
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
17
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ODIs
104
1
4
7
1
1/7
1/7
7.00
10.50
4.0
0
0
0
First-class
129
777
497
10
2/15
49.70
3.83
77.7
0
0
List A
221
156
159
1
1/7
1/7
159.00
6.11
156.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
India v England at Kolkata, Jan 29-Feb 2, 1993 scorecard
Last Test
India v New Zealand at Cuttack, Nov 8-12, 1995 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
India v Pakistan at Sharjah, Oct 18, 1991 scorecard
Last ODI
India v Sri Lanka at Sharjah, Oct 29, 2000 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1989/90 - 2004/05
List A span
1989/90 - 2003/04
Profile
Born and bred in Mumbai, Vinod Kambli's flashy strokeplay, flamboyant personality and fondness for gold jewellery were more West Indies than West India. A precocious talent, he was 17, and Sachin Tendulkar 16, when they put on a world-record unbroken 664-run partnership in a school match. Kambli started his Test career three years after Tendulkar, and three years after he had hit the first ball he received in the Ranji Trophy for six. But what a start it was: in his first seven Tests he racked up two double-centuries and two single ones. His footwork was dazzling against the spinners - he once smashed Shane Warne for 22 runs in an over - but he often got himself into a tangle against the short ball, and his flash to gully soon became a trademark. Kambli's problems were compounded by indiscipline and an obsession with the width of his bat-handle, which had nine grips on at one time. He made as many as nine comebacks into the one-day team, but played his last Test in 1995 before he had turned 24. Rahul Bhattacharya
