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Full name Sarandeep Singh
Born October 21, 1979, Amritsar, Punjab
Current age 28 years 321 days
Major teams India,Delhi,Punjab
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
St
Tests
3
2
1
43
39*
43.00
136
31.61
0
0
1
0
1
0
ODIs
5
4
1
47
19
15.66
73
64.38
0
0
6
0
2
0
First-class
81
102
20
1937
94
23.62
0
6
27
0
List A
68
39
11
371
27*
13.25
0
0
28
0
Twenty20
5
2
1
53
30
53.00
53
100.00
0
0
5
1
2
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
3
4
678
340
10
4/136
6/206
34.00
3.00
67.8
1
0
0
ODIs
5
5
258
180
3
2/34
2/34
60.00
4.18
86.0
0
0
0
First-class
81
17876
8202
273
8/180
30.04
2.75
65.4
17
2
List A
68
3320
2366
88
5/11
5/11
26.88
4.27
37.7
1
2
0
Twenty20
5
5
96
111
3
2/20
2/20
37.00
6.93
32.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
India v Zimbabwe at Nagpur, Nov 25-29, 2000 scorecard
Last Test
West Indies v India at Georgetown, Apr 11-15, 2002 scorecard
India v South Africa at Dhaka, Apr 18, 2003 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut
1998/99
Last First-class
Himachal Pradesh v Rajasthan at Dharamsala, Dec 25-27, 2007 scorecard
List A debut
1999/00
Last List A
Himachal Pradesh v Vidarbha at Visakhapatnam, Apr 5, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Delhi v Himachal Pradesh at Delhi, Apr 3, 2007 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Haryana v Himachal Pradesh at Delhi, Apr 8, 2007 scorecard
Profile
When Sarandeep Singh made his debut at Nagpur in November 2000, it was the first
time in almost six months that India were playing a specialist offspinner. Brought on almost as an afterthought by his captain, when Zimbabwe had already reached 145, Sarandeep started impeccably with four maidens. He struck twice in ten balls soon
after, extracting turn and bite to keep the close cordon busy, and ended the game with six wickets.
Blooded into first class cricket against Haryana at Amritsar in 1998-99, Sarandeep made 45, a legacy of having started his career as a batsman in junior cricket, but went wicketless. A superb spell against Hyderabad in the Super League quickly made pundits sit up and take notice, his match haul of eight wickets taking Punjab to the brink of victory but the effort being thwarted by the fickleness of the batsmen who failed to chase a target of 176. Before the season was out, Sarandeep was playing for the India Under-19s against the touring Sri Lankans.
Sarandeep's 37 victims at 19.43 in the 1999-2000 Ranji Trophy, just his second season in first class cricket, thrust him into the national reckoning. His swift rise was recognised by the National Cricket Academy which selected him amongst its first
batch of trainees in May 2000, a tough four month grind punctuated by lessons from such masters of the craft like Prassana and Venkataraghavan. After impressing in the 2001 domestic season, Sarandeep was picked for a Test against England at Bangalore. He got one more opportunity, in the West Indies in April 2002, but one wicket for 80 in a high-scoring draw meant he was only selected for three more ODIs.
Sarandeep moved from Delhi to Himachal Pradesh for the 2006-07 domestic season - the side wanted a spinner - and finished with 28 wickets at 22.28. As he put it, the responsibility brought the best out of him, and he enjoyed his cricket more than ever. Cricinfo staff November 2007
