Chetan Sharma

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Chetan Sharma
All rounder
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 167)17 October 1984 v Pakistan
Last Test3 May 1989 v West Indies
ODI debut (cap 45)7 December 1983 v West Indies
Last ODI11 November 1994 v West Indies
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1982/83–1992/93Punjab (squad no. Sussex)
1993/94–1996/97Mumbai
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODI FC LA
Matches 23 65 121 107
Runs scored 396 456 3,714 852
Batting average 22.00 24.00 35.03 23.66
100s/50s 0/1 1/0 3/21 1/2
Top score 54 101* 114* 101*
Balls bowled 3470 2,835 19,934 4,504
Wickets 61 67 433 115
Bowling average 35.45 34.86 26.05 31.42
5 wickets in innings 4 0 24 1
10 wickets in match 1 n/a 1 0
Best bowling 6/58 3/22 7/72 5/16
Catches/stumpings 7/– 7/– 71/– 20/–
Medal record
Men's Cricket
Representing  India
World Championship of Cricket
Winner 1985 Australia
ACC Asia Cup
Winner 1984 United Arab Emirates
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 24 December 2020

Chetan Sharma pronunciation

Indian cricket team.[2][3] Sharma was the first man to take a hat-trick in a Cricket World Cup, achieving this feat in the 1987 Cricket World Cup against New Zealand. His hat-trick was also the first time an Indian bowler took one in the ODI format. He was also a part of the Indian squad which won the 1985 World Championship of Cricket
.

After retirement Sharma appeared as a cricket pundit at multiple Indian TV news networks. On 24 December 2020, he was selected as chairman of the selection committee of Indian cricket team.[4]

In November 2022, he was sacked from the position of BCCI national chief selector after team India's exit from the 2022 T20 World Cup.[3] Later BCCI re-appointed him.[5]

Domestic career

He made his

first class debut for Punjab
at the age of 17 and appeared in One Day Internationals a year later.

International career

Making his first appearance in Tests against Pakistan at

World Series Cup
.

Sharma was an important member of the Indian team that defeated

5 wicket haul
in his 32-over spell to end with 5-64 and also have his name permanently etched in the Hall of Fame board at Lord's Cricket Ground. Though only twenty at the time, he picked up frequent injuries which restricted his career. When available, he was the first choice as the opening bowler with Kapil Dev for the next three years.

For his ability to get useful runs down the order that too at quick rate, Sharma was seen as a natural successor to Kapil Dev in the all-rounder category. By the early nineties, his bowling had dropped in pace and sharpness and his strike rate dropped considerably.

1986 Austral-Asia Cup final

Sharma is infamously remembered for bowling the last ball to Pakistani batting great

final of the Austral-Asia cup in Sharjah in 1986. With Pakistan needing four runs to win off the final ball, Sharma bowled a low full toss outside the leg stump, and Miandad's towering, last-ball six constituted the first instance until then that an international game had ended in that manner.[6][7] That defeat started a chain of defeats for Indian cricket team in Sharjah
.

1987 World Cup

In the

New Zealand
off consecutive balls.

Post World Cup

He played the most noted innings of his career against England in the Nehru Cup in 1989. Sent in at No.3 with India facing a target of 256, he scored 101* in 96 balls, completing his hundred with the match-winning run. He made another important contribution in India's win against

Australia in the next match, sharing an unfinished partnership of 40 runs with Manoj Prabhakar
and ending the match with a six. But his bowling had waned considerably and he was excluded from the tour of Pakistan a few weeks later.

Late career

Sharma received few opportunities thereafter. In one of his last international appearances, against New Zealand in a three nations tournament in 1994 he ended up with figures of 1–0–23–0 after being hit for five fours off consecutive balls by Stephen Fleming. He moved from Haryana to Bengal in 1993 and stayed there till the end of his career in 1996.

After cricket

After his retirement, Chetan became a cricket

commentator. He opened a Fast bowling cricket academy in Panchkula in Haryana in 2004 which closed down in 2009. Chetan is the nephew of the former Indian cricketer Yashpal Sharma
.

Political career

Chetan contested the

Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP),[9] and was appointed party's sports cell convener.[10]

As Chief selector

In December 2020, he was elected as chairman of the selection committee of Indian cricket team.[11] Later in November 2022, he was sacked from the position after team India's exit from the T20 Cricket World Cup.[3] However, he was re-appointed on the same post upon applying for it.[5]

Controversy and resignation

In February 2023, he courted controversy when he got filmed in a sting operation which alleged that Indian cricketers take injections to expedite their return to the national team, despite being only 80 to 85% fit; he also revealed that Virat Kohli lied to media in 2021 that BCCI removed him from ODI captaincy without discussing to defame then BCCI president Sourav Ganguly.[2] He resigned from the post of chief selector a few days after the release of sting operation.[12]

References

  1. ^ Bhattacharyya, Gautam (24 June 2019). "Cricket World Cup 2019: Mohammad Shami's seam position best, Chetan Sharma says". Gulf News. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 16 September 2022. At five feet three inches, Sharma was quite a spunky customer who shared the new ball with the legendary Kapil Dev […]
  2. ^ a b "The BCCI Sting: Kohli vs Ganguly, performance injections and more – What Chetan Sharma revealed". The Financial Express. India. Archived from the original on 15 February 2023. Retrieved 15 February 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "BCCI sacks senior men's selection committee and invites fresh applications". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 18 November 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  4. ^ "BCCI appoints Chetan Sharma as chairman of selection committee". ANI News. Archived from the original on 24 December 2020. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Chetan Sharma re-appointed India.com". Archived from the original on 16 February 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  6. ^ "Miandad seals it with a six". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  7. ^ "Javed Miandad, Chetan Sharma and the 'Unforgettable' Sharjah Six". News18 India. Archived from the original on 13 July 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Assembly Election Results 2018: Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Mizoram. Outlook Magazine". Archived from the original on 22 June 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  9. ^ "Cricketer Chetan Sharma quits BSP, joins BJP". Hindustan Times. 15 September 2009. Archived from the original on 17 January 2023. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  10. ^ Service, Tribune News. "Sportspersons seek BJP ticket". Tribuneindia News Service. Archived from the original on 17 January 2023. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  11. ^ "Chetan Sharma named BCCI's new Chairman of selectors; Kuruvilla and Debashish Mohanty also included". Hindustan Times. 24 December 2020. Archived from the original on 13 July 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  12. ^ "Chetan Sharma: India's top cricket selector quits after TV sting". BBC. 17 February 2023.
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