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Full name | Mukesh Shamsunder Narula | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Delhi, India |
2 September 1962|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1985–1996 | Baroda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1989–1994 | West Zone | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 25 April 2015 |
Mukesh Shamsunder Narula (born 2 September 1962) is a former Indian cricketer who is the current coach of the Canadian national side. His domestic career as an all-rounder for Baroda spanned from 1985 to 1996, and included a number of matches for West Zone in the Duleep and Deodhar Trophies. Prior to being appointed coach of Canada in August 2014, Narula had briefly served as Baroda's senior coach, as well as coaching the Canadian under-19 team.
Although born in Delhi, Narula was raised in Vadodara, and played all his representative cricket for Baroda teams. During his time at the University of Baroda, where he graduated in 1984, he played regularly in inter-university matches. Narula made his Ranji Trophy debut for Baroda's senior side during the 1985–86 season, and in his fourth and final match, against Saurashtra in January 1986, scored a maiden first-class century, an even 100 not out. Coming in seventh in the batting order, he put on 161 runs for the sixth wicket with Sanjay Hazare, which as of April 2015[update] remains a record for Baroda–Saurashtra matches. Narula scored another century, 105, in the following season's Ranji Trophy fixture against Saurashtra, and his 209-run fifth-wicket partnership with Tushar Arothe set another record for Baroda–Saurashtra matches. That was his only century of the 1986–87 season, and he similarly scored just a single century during the 1987–88 season, 102 against Gujarat.