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Full name Arshad Ayub
Born August 2, 1958, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
Current age 49 years 289 days
Major teams India, Hyderabad (India)
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Batting and fielding averages
	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	13	19	4	257	57	17.13	800	32.12	0	1	25	0	2
ODIs	32	17	7	116	31*	11.60	162	71.60	0	0	6	0	5
First-class	98	129	22	3014	206*	28.16			2	16			44
List A	54	30	11	281	71	14.78			0	1			12

Bowling averages
	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	13	22	3663	1438	41	5/50	8/104	35.07	2.35	89.3	4	3	0
ODIs	32	32	1769	1216	31	5/21	5/21	39.22	4.12	57.0	0	1	0
First-class	98		23899	10295	361	8/65		28.51	2.58	66.2		24	3
List A	54		2981	1990	54	5/21	5/21	36.85	4.00	55.2	0	2	0

Career statistics
Test debut	India v West Indies at Delhi, Nov 25-29, 1987 scorecard
Last Test	Pakistan v India at Lahore, Dec 1-6, 1989 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	India v West Indies at Nagpur, Dec 8, 1987 scorecard
Last ODI	India v Sri Lanka at Margao, Dec 8, 1990 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span	1978/79 - 1993/94
List A span	1979/80 - 1993/94

Profile

Arshad Ayub's Test career lasted just over two years. But in that short eventful time, he experienced the kind of ups and downs that cricketers experience over a much longer period. A right arm off spinner who relied more on accuracy than turn and a useful late order batsman, Ayub played against West Indies, New Zealand and Pakistan. In his debut series against West Indies, he held out promise of bigger things. In the first Test, he took four of the five wickets that West Indies lost in the second innings and it took a special innings from Vivian Richards to halt a rampaging Ayub in his tracks. Then in the third Test he scored a fine 57 at No 9. The next season he played a leading part in India winning the series against New Zealand with a bag of 21 wickets in the three Tests. A few months later he showed that it was not only on Indian pitches that he could succeed by taking 14 wickets against a strong West Indian side in the Caribbean in four Tests. This included two five wicket hauls. However in his next series in Pakistan, he was a total failure. After two Tests he was not only wicketless but was also very expensive and was not considered thereafter.

A utility player like Ayub pulled in his weight in the limited overs game and he had one notable spell when he bowled India to victory against Pakistan in the Asia Cup final at Dhaka in 1988 with a spell of five for 21, then the best bowling figures by an Indian in a ODI. All things considered, he was perhaps discarded too soon but this meant that he could give his all for Hyderabad, for whom he rendered yeoman service for several years. Besides being a shrewd skipper, he also had excellent all round career figures of 2224 runs and 268 wickets.(Partab Ramchand)