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Full name Sarandeep Singh
Born October 21, 1979, Amritsar, Punjab
Current age 28 years 277 days
Major teams India, Delhi, Punjab
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Batting and fielding averages

Mat

Inns

Runs

Ave

100

Tests

39*

43.00

136

31.61

ODIs

15.66

64.38

First-class

102

1937

23.62

List A

371

27*

13.25

Twenty20

53.00

100.00

Bowling averages

Mat

Inns

Balls

Runs

Wkts

BBI

BBM

Ave

Econ

Tests

678

340

4/136

6/206

34.00

3.00

67.8

ODIs

258

180

2/34

60.00

4.18

86.0

First-class

17876

8202

273

8/180

30.04

2.75

65.4

List A

3320

2366

5/11

26.88

4.27

37.7

Twenty20

111

2/20

37.00

6.93

32.0

Career statistics

Test debut

India v Zimbabwe at Nagpur, Nov 25-29, 2000 scorecard

Last Test

West Indies v India at Georgetown, Apr 11-15, 2002 scorecard

Test statistics

ODI debut

India v England at Delhi, Jan 31, 2002 scorecard

Last ODI

India v South Africa at Dhaka, Apr 18, 2003 scorecard

ODI statistics

First-class debut

1998/99

Last First-class

Himachal Pradesh v Rajasthan at Dharamsala, Dec 25-27, 2007 scorecard

List A debut

1999/00

Last List A

Himachal Pradesh v Vidarbha at Visakhapatnam, Apr 5, 2008 scorecard

Twenty20 debut

Delhi v Himachal Pradesh at Delhi, Apr 3, 2007 scorecard

Last Twenty20

Haryana v Himachal Pradesh at Delhi, Apr 8, 2007 scorecard

When Sarandeep Singh made his debut at Nagpur in November 2000, it was the first time in almost six months that India were playing a specialist offspinner. Brought on almost as an afterthought by his captain, when Zimbabwe had already reached 145, Sarandeep started impeccably with four maidens. He struck twice in ten balls soon after, extracting turn and bite to keep the close cordon busy, and ended the game with six wickets.

Blooded into first class cricket against Haryana at Amritsar in 1998-99, Sarandeep made 45, a legacy of having started his career as a batsman in junior cricket, but went wicketless. A superb spell against Hyderabad in the Super League quickly made pundits sit up and take notice, his match haul of eight wickets taking Punjab to the brink of victory but the effort being thwarted by the fickleness of the batsmen who failed to chase a target of 176. Before the season was out, Sarandeep was playing for the India Under-19s against the touring Sri Lankans.

Sarandeep's 37 victims at 19.43 in the 1999-2000 Ranji Trophy, just his second season in first class cricket, thrust him into the national reckoning. His swift rise was recognised by the National Cricket Academy which selected him amongst its first batch of trainees in May 2000, a tough four month grind punctuated by lessons from such masters of the craft like Prassana and Venkataraghavan. After impressing in the 2001 domestic season, Sarandeep was picked for a Test against England at Bangalore. He got one more opportunity, in the West Indies in April 2002, but one wicket for 80 in a high-scoring draw meant he was only selected for three more ODIs.

Sarandeep moved from Delhi to Himachal Pradesh for the 2006-07 domestic season - the side wanted a spinner - and finished with 28 wickets at 22.28. As he put it, the responsibility brought the best out of him, and he enjoyed his cricket more than ever.
Cricinfo staff November 2007

Dec 26, 2007

Sarandeep Singh makes an unsuccessful lbw appeal against Shamsher Singh © Cricinfo Ltd

Dec 2, 2007

Himachal Pradesh's Sarandeep Singh congratulates Paras Dogra on his fifty © Cricinfo Ltd

Nov 5, 2007

Sarandeep Singh attempts to run out Saurashtra's Rakesh Dhruv © Cricinfo Ltd

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