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Sarandeep Singh

India

Full name Sarandeep Singh

Born October 21, 1979, Amritsar, Punjab

Current age 30 years 32 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	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	3	2	1	43	39*	43.00	136	31.61	0	1	0	1
ODIs	5	4	1	47	19	15.66	73	64.38	0	6	0	2
First-class	91	116	22	2200	94	23.40			7			28
List A	74	44	13	467	50*	15.06			1			30
Twenty20	10	2	1	53	30	53.00	53	100.00	0	5	1	6

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	91		19819	9031	313	8/180		28.85	2.73	63.3		18	2
List A	74		3608	2574	95	5/11	5/11	27.09	4.28	37.9	1	2	0
Twenty20	10	10	204	213	11	3/20	3/20	19.36	6.26	18.5	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
Test statistics
ODI debut	India v England at Delhi, Jan 31, 2002 scorecard
Last ODI	India v South Africa at Dhaka, Apr 18, 2003 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut	1998/99
Last First-class	Mumbai v Himachal Pradesh at Mumbai, Nov 17-20, 2009 scorecard
List A debut	1999/00
Last List A	Himachal Pradesh v Uttar Pradesh at Agartala, Mar 2, 2009 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Delhi v Himachal Pradesh at Delhi, Apr 3, 2007 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Punjab v Himachal Pradesh at Delhi, Oct 25, 2009 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