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Aakash Chopra

India

Full name Aakash Chopra

Born September 19, 1977, Agra, Uttar Pradesh

Current age 32 years 67 days

Major teams India, Delhi, Kolkata Knight Riders, Marylebone Cricket Club

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm medium, Right-arm offbreak

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	10	19	0	437	60	23.00	1263	34.60	0	2	49	0	15
First-class	131	217	22	9041	239*	46.36			24	44			165
List A	58	55	7	2293	130*	47.77			7	16			28
Twenty20	12	11	0	151	31	13.72	168	89.88	0	0	12	0	2

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	131		534	297	6	2/5		49.50	3.33	89.0		0	0
List A	58		84	58	1	1/17	1/17	58.00	4.14	84.0	0	0	0
Twenty20	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Career statistics

Test debut	India v New Zealand at Ahmedabad, Oct 8-12, 2003 scorecard
Last Test	India v Australia at Nagpur, Oct 26-29, 2004 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class debut	1997/98
Last First-class	Delhi v Karnataka at Delhi, Nov 10-13, 2009 scorecard
List A debut	1996/97
Last List A	East Zone v North Zone at Cuttack, Mar 14, 2009 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Kolkata Knight Riders v Royal Challengers Bangalore at Kolkata, May 8, 2008 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Delhi v Services at Delhi, Oct 25, 2009 scorecard

Profile

An opener in the classical mould, Aakash Chopra has a technique and temperament perfectly suited to occupation of the crease and seeing the shine off the leather. Those attributes came handy for him, and for India, just when they were hunting desperately for a pair of good openers. After a right-knee injury had laid him low at the end of 2002-03, Chopra started the new season with a sound batting display in the two-Test series at home against New Zealand. That earned him a ticket to Australia, where he enhanced his reputation further by providing solid starts in partnership with Virender Sehwag, his Delhi team-mate.

Although he failed to cross the 50-mark in the four Tests against Australia, he showed enough patience to spend valuable time in the middle, see off the new ball and build a solid platform from which the strong middle order could elevate India to greater heights. He also proved to be an outstanding close-in fielder, invoking comparisons with the legendary Eknath Solkar. Unfortunately, the advent of Yuvraj Singh as a match-turning batsman on the tour of Pakistan in 2004 meant that Chopra was relegated to the status of squad player. He was dropped from the team after an unimpressive performance in the home series against Australia in 2004. Three years since, he was picked to open for India A in the unofficial Tests against South Africa. In the only completed match against South Africa A, he scored an unbeaten double century. The 2007-8 season continued to be prosperous for Chopra: 783 runs in Delhi's title-winning Ranji Trophy campaign; 332 runs at a whopping 332.00, with three hundreds at a strike-rate above 100, in the one-day version; 310 runs in the Duleep Trophy, helping North to victory. Chopra was then signed on by the Kolkata Knight Riders, of the lucrative Indian Premier League.
Nagraj Gollapudi March 2008