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Full name Ashish Nehra
Born April 29, 1979, Delhi
Current age 29 years 86 days
Major teams India,Asia XI,Delhi,Mumbai Indians
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Left-arm medium-fast
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
17
25
11
77
19
5.50
256
30.07
0
0
8
3
5
0
ODIs
72
26
14
87
24
7.25
124
70.16
0
0
8
2
10
0
First-class
74
87
28
493
43
8.35
0
0
23
0
List A
125
53
24
263
24
9.06
0
0
16
0
Twenty20
14
4
3
3
2*
3.00
13
23.07
0
0
0
0
7
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
17
29
3447
1866
44
4/72
6/117
42.40
3.24
78.3
2
0
0
ODIs
72
72
3576
2859
92
6/23
6/23
31.07
4.79
38.8
2
2
0
First-class
74
14221
7335
250
7/14
29.34
3.09
56.8
12
4
List A
125
6175
4821
148
6/23
6/23
32.57
4.68
41.7
3
2
0
Twenty20
14
14
269
348
12
3/13
3/13
29.00
7.76
22.4
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (SSC), Feb 24-28, 1999 scorecard
Last Test
Pakistan v India at Rawalpindi, Apr 13-16, 2004 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Zimbabwe v India at Harare, Jun 24, 2001 scorecard
Last ODI
India v New Zealand at Harare, Sep 6, 2005 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut
1997/98
Last First-class
Haryana v Delhi at Rohtak, Jan 10-12, 2007 scorecard
List A debut
1997/98
Last List A
Bengal v Delhi at Visakhapatnam, Apr 2, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Mumbai Indians v Bangalore Royal Challengers at Mumbai, Apr 20, 2008 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Bangalore Royal Challengers v Mumbai Indians at Bangalore, May 28, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Ashish Nehra brings to the popping-crease most of the virtues of a classical left-arm fast bowler - pace, accuracy, subtle variations of line and length, an ability to move the ball off the wicket and a devastating late inswinger that can harass the best. He came out of his first full tour - to Zimbabwe in 2000-01 - with his reputation as one of the most promising new-ball bowlers on the international circuit vastly enhanced, and his performance at Bulawayo played a key role in India's winning a Test outside the subcontinent for the first time in 15 years. He struggled to establish himself thereafter, as inconsistency and injuries saw him slip down the pace bowling list. The high point of that difficult period came in the 2003 World Cup against England, where he scalped 6-23 and then threw up by the side of the pitch. Surgery on a troublesome ankle, and an indifferent tour of Australia followed, but having ceased to be an automatic pick, he performed creditably in Pakistan. Eminently capable of slipping in the fast yorker, Nehra at his best is capable of evoking images of a youthful Wasim Akram.
Dileep Premachandran
