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Ambati Rayudu

India

Full name Ambati Thirupathi Rayudu

Born September 23, 1985, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh

Current age 24 years 61 days

Major teams Hyderabad (India), Hyderabad Heroes, ICL India XI

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
First-class	50	81	8	2865	210	39.24			7	14			35
List A	40	37	1	1085	117	30.13			1	8			16
Twenty20	6	6	1	167	75*	33.40	128	130.46	0	2	14	4	4

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
First-class	50		567	375	8	4/43		46.87	3.96	70.8	1	0	0
List A	40		216	202	8	4/45	4/45	25.25	5.61	27.0	1	0	0
Twenty20	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Career statistics

First-class debut	2001/02
Last First-class	Hyderabad (India) v Gujarat at Hyderabad (Decc), Nov 17-20, 2009 scorecard
List A debut	2001/02
Last List A	Karnataka v Hyderabad (India) at Hyderabad (Decc), Feb 16, 2007 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Goa v Hyderabad (India) at Visakhapatnam, Apr 3, 2007 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Andhra v Hyderabad (India) at Visakhapatnam, Sep 25, 2009 scorecard

Profile

Ambati Rayudu was touted as India's next great batting hope ever since he started training at the National Cricket Academy in 2001. A pint-sized, fluent strokemaker with a compact technique, he blazed an unbeaten 177 - after opening the batting - as India's colts completed a clean sweep of a one-day series in England in 2002. The Ranji Trophy season that followed, his first, was also exceptional - including a double-century and a hundred in the same match against Andhra - though he tailed off towards the end of an arduous campaign. He was captain of India's Under-19 team and led the side to the semis of the U-19 World Cup in Bangladesh in 2004. However, his batting since then hasn't matched initial expectations; he has failed to earn a call-up for the national team and has been overtaken by several of his U-19 team-mates, including Irfan Pathan, Suresh Raina and Dinesh Karthik. But Rayudu had more than his fair share of problems off the field. After a disappointing 2004-05 season with the bat, he had issues with the then Hyderabad coach and transferred to Andhra the following season. He returned to Hyderabad the next season but started having trouble with the umpires on a few occasions. His consistency suffered, and when the Indian Cricket League came calling in 2007, he signed up along with a host of fellow Hyderabad team-mates. The opportunity to play alongside foreign stars in front of a television audience, he said, attracted him. The ICL put a hold on his international prospects for two seasons before accepting the BCCI's amnesty offer in 2009 and cancelling his contract.
Dileep Premachandran June 2009