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Updated on June 12th 2022, 8:48:04 am

Ajit Agarkar Profile, Stats and Records

Ajit Agarkar played cricket for India from 1998-2007 and he was more prominently an ODI player. Let’s look at his profile stats and records.

After talking about a great batter in Krishnamachari Srikkanth and his profile stats and records it is time to talk about one of the great fast bowlers from India and his name is Ajit Agarkar. He was the leading fast bowler for India for a number of years and he bowed fast and took a lot of wickets. We will look at his Profile Stats and Records below.

Ajit Agarkar played cricket for India from 1998-2007 and he was more prominently an ODI player although he played quite a few test matches as well. He has taken a lot of wickets in ODI cricket and was the leading wicket taker for India in this format for a number of years as well. Ajit Agarkar after retirement has been mentoring young fast bowlers and he has also become a very good commentator as well.

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Ajit Agarkar is one of my most favorite bowlers to watch because he has such a good looking bowling action and I think Mohammad Shami is the only one after him that has as beautiful of a bowling action as Ajit. He could bowl non stop with his action and that is the reason why even after playing for 9 years only he had such a significant impact especially on ODIs. He was also a part of the winning 2007 T20I World Cup winning team. Let’s look at his profile stats and records.

Profile:

Personal Information

The full name of Ajit Agarkar is Ajit Balchandra Agarkar and he was born on 4th December 1977 in Mumbai and he was a cricket fan since his young days ever since he saw Sachin Tendulkar bat and the likes of Glenn McGrath bowl and he also wanted to become a fast bowler for India and for that he took the proper coaching. Ajit was 5ft 7 inches which allowed him to her bounce on the ball. He was also a very handy right handed batter for India and has a test hundred at Lord’s and his name on the honors board.

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International Information

Ajit Agarkar played for India from 1998-2007 and he had a stellar career. His first test match was on 7th October 1998 vs Zimbabwe and he was test cap number 216 for India and his last test match for India was on 13th January 2006 vs Pakistan. His ODI career was more noteworthy as his first ODI was against Australia on 1st April 1998 and after 9 years he played his last ODI match on 30th August 2007 vs England. Ajit Agarkar also played T20I cricket for India in 2007 and was a part of the first ever T20I World Cup winning team for India that year.

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Career Stats:

Competition	Test	ODIs
Matches	26	191
Runs Scored	571	1269
Batting average	16.79	14.58
100s/50s	1/0	0/3
Top score	109*	95
Balls bowled	4857	9484
Wickets	58	288
Bowling average	47.32	27.85
5 wickets in an innings	1	2
10 wickets in a match	0	0
Best bowling	6/41	6/42
Catches	68	52