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Madan Lal

Madan Lal
Personal information
Full name Madan Lal Udhouram Sharma
Born (1951-03-20) 20 March 1951 (age 65)
Amritsar, Punjab, India
Nickname Madipa, Maddat Lal
Batting style Right-hand batsman
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Role All-rounder
Relations Kuunal Lal (Son)
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 130) 6 June, 1974 v England
Last Test 19 June, 1986 v Pakistan
ODI debut (cap 5) 13 July, 1974 v England
Last ODI 20 March, 1987 v England
Domestic team information
Years Team
1968–1972 Punjab
1973–1991 Delhi
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODIs FC LA
Matches 39 67 232 111
Runs scored 1042 401 10204 1171
Batting average 22.65 19.09 42.87 25.45
100s/50s -/5 -/1 22/50 -/5
Top score 74 53* 223 64
Balls bowled 5997 3164 33123 5456
Wickets 71 73 625 119
Bowling average 40.08 29.27 25.50 30.20
5 wickets in innings 4 27 0
10 wickets in match n/a 5 n/a
Best bowling 5/23 4/20 9/31 4/20
Catches/stumpings 15/- 18/- 141/– 31/–
Source: ESPNCricinfo, 4 August 2014

Madan Lal Udhouram SharmaAbout this sound pronunciation  (Punjabi ਮਦਨ ਲਾਲ, Hindi मदन लाल and Urdu مدن لال ادی رام شرما ) born 20 March 1951 in Amritsar, Punjab is a former Indian cricketer (1974–1987) and Indian national cricket coach. He was also a member of the World Cup winning India squad of 1983.

Madan Lal enjoyed outstanding all-round success at first-class level scoring 10,204 runs (av 42.87), including 22 hundreds, also capturing 625 wickets (av 25.50). He had a side-on bowling action.

He played 39 Test matches for India, scoring 1,042 runs at an average of 22.65, taking 71 wickets at 40.08 and holding 15 catches. He was a fairly competent lower order batsman, often extricating the Indian team from tricky situations which earned him the nickname, Maddat Lal by grateful Indian fans.

He made 67 One Day Internationals appearances and was also a member of the 1983 World Cup final winning team where he teamed up with Kapil Dev, Balwinder Sandhu, Roger Binny, Mohinder Amarnath and Kirti Azad to contain and destroy the opposition.In the 1983 world cup finale Kapil Dev took the extraordinary catch of Vivian Richards off the bowling of Madan Lal. Madan Lal played for Punjab but later played for Delhi. Madan Lal also bowled the first ball to Dennis Amiss of England in the 1975 World Cup


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