Yashpal Sharma (cricketer)
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11 August 1954 Ludhiana, Punjab, India |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman, occasional wicket-keeper, umpire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Chetan Sharma (nephew) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 145) | 2 August 1979 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 3 November 1983 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 26) | 13 October 1978 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 27 January 1985 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1973/74–1986/87 | Punjab | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1987/88–1989/90 | Haryana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1991/92–1992/93 | Railways | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: ESPNCricinfo, 30 September 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yashpal Sharma 
pronunciation (born 11 August 1954) is a former Indian cricketer. He was a middle order batsman who played at the turn of the 1980s.
Yashpal Sharma first drew attention when he scored 260 for Punjab schools against Jammu & Kashmir schools in 1972. Within two years he was in the state team, and a member of the North Zone team that won the Vizzy Trophy. His first major innings in first class cricket was a 173 in the Duleep Trophy for North, against the South Zone which had Chandrasekhar, Erapalli Prasanna and Venkataraghavan. But he missed the tour to Australia that followed immediately afterwards.
A 99 runout in the Irani Trophy the next year got Sharma a place in the team to Pakistan a few weeks later. He played two one day matches in the tour. He went to England in 1979 as a part of the team that played in the World Cup. He did not play in any match but appeared in three Tests in the series that followed. He scored 884 runs at an average of 58 in the tour matches.
His form in England assured him of a Test place in the next few games. After scoring a pair against Australia in the Kanpur Test, Sharma scored his first Test hundred in the very next match. He could have scored another in the next Test at Calcutta, but with 3.4 overs still left before the end of the Test, he appealed against light. Through the 1979–80 season, Sharma played a series of steady but unexceptional innings where he often played a supportive role to a senior batsman. He was basically a defensive batsman but could hit very hard when needed.
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