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Murali Kartik

India

Full name Murali Kartik

Born September 11, 1976, Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu

Current age 33 years 72 days

Major teams India, India Green, Kolkata Knight Riders, Lancashire, Middlesex, Railways

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Height 6 ft 0 in

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	8	10	1	88	43	9.77	231	38.09	0	0	11	0	2
ODIs	37	14	5	126	32*	14.00	178	70.78	0	0	10	1	10
T20Is	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
First-class	145	182	28	2982	96	19.36			0	14			101
List A	166	81	26	619	44	11.25			0	0			50
Twenty20	47	11	4	62	17	8.85	68	91.17	0	0	4	0	13

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	8	15	1932	820	24	4/44	7/76	34.16	2.54	80.5	1	0	0
ODIs	37	36	1907	1612	37	6/27	6/27	43.56	5.07	51.5	0	1	0
T20Is	1	1	24	27	0	-	-	-	6.75	-	0	0	0
First-class	145		31228	12574	480	9/70		26.19	2.41	65.0		25	3
List A	166		8521	6154	208	6/27	6/27	29.58	4.33	40.9	2	2	0
Twenty20	47	45	958	1058	37	5/13	5/13	28.59	6.62	25.8	0	1	0

Career statistics

Test debut	India v South Africa at Mumbai, Feb 24-26, 2000 scorecard
Last Test	India v South Africa at Kanpur, Nov 20-24, 2004 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	India v Zimbabwe at Hyderabad (Decc), Mar 16, 2002 scorecard
Last ODI	India v Pakistan at Jaipur, Nov 18, 2007 scorecard
ODI statistics
Only T20I	India v Australia at Mumbai (BS), Oct 20, 2007 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	1996/97
Last First-class	Orissa v Railways at Bhubaneswar, Nov 17-20, 2009 scorecard
List A debut	1996/97
Last List A	Middlesex v Northamptonshire at Uxbridge, Sep 19, 2009 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Surrey v Middlesex at The Oval, Jun 22, 2007 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Madhya Pradesh v Railways at Indore, Oct 25, 2009 scorecard

Profile

A left-arm spinner in the classical mould, Murali Kartik has long been on the fringes of the national team. He has a high-arm action straight from the coaching manual, and possesses all the weapons in his armoury. But he hasn't always had the breaks, and has regularly played the understudy to Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh.

Kartik forced his way into the Indian team in 1999-2000 after impressive performances in the domestic games, but didn't seem to enjoy Sourav Ganguly's confidence and was either used as a defensive option or underbowled. He made his mark as a one-day bowler against West Indies in 2002-03, consistently keeping the batsmen in check on flat pitches. However, his best moment clearly came at Mumbai, against Australia in 2004-05 when he ran through the Australian batting on a dustbowl, taking seven wickets in the match to bowl India to a famous win. However he got to play just one Test more before being consigned to the periphery. His stint with Middlesex in 2007, though, brought him back into contention and his 12 wickets at 20.75 from eight Pro40 games allowed him to break back into the Indian one-day side in the middle of the seven-match series against Australia in October 2007. He was part of Middlesex's Twenty20-winning squad in 2008 and, uniquely, the only player in the world to play in the IPL and Stanford 20/20 in the inaugural season.
S Rajesh October 2008