Madan Lal
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Full name | Madan Lal Udhouram Sharma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Amritsar, Punjab, India |
20 March 1951 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Madipa, Maddat Lal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting style | Right-hand batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Kuunal Lal (Son) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
International information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National side | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Test debut (cap 130) | 6 June, 1974 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 19 June, 1986 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 5) | 13 July, 1974 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 20 March, 1987 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1968-1972 | Punjab | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1973-1991 | Delhi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNCricinfo, 4 August 2014 |
Madan Lal Udhouram Sharma[1] Audio file "Madan_Lal.ogg" not found (Punjabi ਮਦਨ ਲਾਲ, Hindi मदन लाल and Urdu مدن لال ادی رام شرما ) born 20 March 1951 in Amritsar, Punjab is a former Indian cricketer (1974–1987) and Indian national cricket coach. He was also a member of the World Cup winning Indian squad of 1983.
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Playing career
Madan Lal enjoyed outstanding all-round success at first-class level scoring 10,204 runs (av 42.87), including 22 hundreds, also capturing 625 wickets (av 25.50). He had a side-on bowling action.
He played 39 Test matches for India, scoring 1,042 runs at an average of 22.65, taking 71 wickets at 40.08 and holding 15 catches. He was a fairly competent lower order batsman, often extricating the Indian team from tricky situations which earned him the nickname, Maddat Lal by grateful Indian fans.
He made 67 One Day Internationals appearances and was also a member of the 1983 World Cup final winning team where he teamed up with Kapil Dev, Balwinder Sandhu, Roger Binny, Mohinder Amarnath and Kirti Azad to contain and destroy the opposition.In the 1983 world cup finale Kapil Dev took the extraordinary catch of Vivian Richards off the bowling of Madan Lal. Madan Lal played for Punjab but later played for Delhi. Madan Lal also bowled the first ball to Dennis Amiss of England in the 1975 World Cup[2]
Coaching career
In his retirement, Madan Lal has been actively involved in the game in various capacities. Madan Lal coached the UAE team[citation needed] for 1996 Cricket World Cup. Madan Lal had a stint as India's national cricket coach between September 1996 and September 1997[3]
He was member of the Selection Committee from 2000 and 2001. He joined and served as the coach of the Delhi Giants (known as the Delhi Jets till 2008) in the Indian Cricket League till it became defunct. He later applied for BCCI's amnesty offer since the ICL was not a recognized Twenty20 League.
Madan Lal run a cricket academy in Siri Fort Sports Complex, Delhi. [4] He was appointed as chief coach of the Sanjay Jagdale MPCA Academy in 2010. [5]
Political career
In March 2009, the Indian National Congress decided to field Madan Lal as their candidate for the Hamirpur Parliamentary constituency bye elections in Himachal Pradesh. Madan Lal was chosen to contest the bye elections against Anurag Thakur, son of the Himachal Pradesh BJP leader, Prem Kumar Dhumal. [6]
Acting career
In April 2013, Madan Lal came on a crime show called Hum Ne Li Hai- Shapath on Life OK at 9pm.
References
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- ↑ tribuneindia
External links
- Madan Lal’s cricket academy at Gaur City, Greater Noida (West) on realtyfact.com
- cricinfo
- cricketarchive
Preceded by | Indian National Cricket Coach (Manager) September 1996 – October 1997 |
Succeeded by Anshuman Gaekwad |
Preceded by
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United Arab Emirates national cricket coach 1996 |
Succeeded by Abdul Razzaq Kazim |
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