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.jpg) Javagal Srinath in February 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1969-08-31)31 August 1969 (age 56) Mysore,Mysore State, India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (191 cm)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-armfast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 193) | 29 November 1991 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 30 October 2002 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 81) | 18 October 1991 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 23 March 2003 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI shirt no. | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Javagal Srinath (pronunciationⓘ, born 31 August 1969) is a former Indiancricketer and currently anICC match referee. He is considered among India's finest fast bowlers and is the only Indian fast bowler till date to have taken more than 300 wickets inOne Day Internationals.[2] With India, Srinath was a member of the Indian team that was the joint-winners of the2002 ICC Champions Trophy, a title they shared with Sri Lanka, and was a member of the team that were runners-up in the2003 Cricket World Cup.
Srinath was a frontlinefast bowler for theIndian cricket team until his retirement, and the second Indian pace bowler afterKapil Dev to take 200Test match wickets. After Kapil Dev retired, Srinath led the Indian fast-bowling attack for over nine years. He remains India's second-highestOne Day International wicket-taker with 315, second to Anil Kumble. In the four World Cup's he played in: 1992, 1996, 1999 and 2003, he took 44 wickets[3] and was the joint highest wicket-taker for India in World Cups withZaheer Khan.[4] He is one of the fastest bowlers to have played for India.
Srinath retired from international cricket after the 2003 Cricket World Cup in South Africa.
Srinath was born in August 1969 atMysore inKarnataka. He played cricket from an early age.[5] He attendedMarimallappa High School and has aBachelor of Engineering degree ininstrumentation from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE) inMysore.[6] He married his first wife, Jyothsna, in 1999. After their divorce, he married journalist Madhavi Patravali in 2008.[7]
Srinath caught the eye of former Indian Test batsmanGundappa Viswanath, a selector for the state team, during a club match.[citation needed] He made his first-class debut forKarnataka againstHyderabad in 1989–90, taking ahat-trick in the first innings in which he bowled and taking wickets from successive balls in the second. He finished the season with 25 wickets in six matches, and took another 20 the following season. His second season involved a display ofreverse swing againstMaharashtra atNehru Stadium inPune, taking 7/93 to dismiss the home team for 311 in response to a Karnataka total of 638 on a good batting pitch.[citation needed]
Srinath took over 500 first-class wickets, including 96 at anaverage of 24.06 runs per wicket for Karnataka. He played in Englishcounty cricket forGloucestershire in 1995 and took 87 wickets that season, including 9/76 againstGlamorgan. Srinath also played county cricket forLeicestershire andDurham.[8]
Srinath made hisOne Day International debut at Sharjah in 1991. He played 11 ODIs and twoTest matches in his debut year, taking 14 ODI wickets at an average of 30.00. He was selected for the Indian team for its 1991–92 tour of Australia, making his test debut againstAustralia atBrisbane. He took 3/59 as the third fast bowler during the match and finished the tour with ten wickets at 55.30. With an opportunity to take the new ball againstSouth Africa inCape Town, he took an economical 4/33 in 27 overs and ended the tour with 12 wickets at 26.08. Because the wickets in India were conducive to spin, however, Srinath spent seven consecutive home Test matches watching from the sidelines as India fielded only two fast bowlers.
Following the retirement of Kapil Dev in late 1994, Srinath played his first home Test match, playing against theWest Indies. He took five wickets and scored 60 in the second innings to be named Player of the Match. His increased opportunities coincided with an improvement in his batting, and he scored two half-centuries during the series.
Srinath was considered a very fast bowler in his early years. In the1997–98 Test series against Australia, one of Srinath's deliveries was measured at 149.6 kilometres per hour (93.0 mph)[9] andZimbabwe captainAlistair Campbell considered him faster thanLance Klusener andAllan Donald at their peak. He andGrant Flower had also facedWaqar Younis andWasim Akram.[10] Srinath was India's only regular fast bowler for many years, and his workload is believed to have caused his injuries; he underwent surgery on his right shoulder in 1997.[11]
Srinath's rotator-cuff injury, diagnosed in March 1997, kept him away from cricket until November of that year and affected his speed. The injury was caused by overuse. At the time, he had 92 test wickets in 27 tests—46 in his first 18, and 46 in his last nine matches.[12] There were some doubts about whether he would be able to play again and when he announced his retirement in November 2003, Srinath said that he thought his career was over when he was recovering from the rotator-cuff injury.[13][12]
He returned from injury in 1998 and took 17 wickets in Test matches and 37 wickets in 19 ODIs at an average of 22.00—the best year of his career.
With a change of Indian captain in 2000, Srinath was given fewer overs thanAnil Kumble in Test matches. He was primarily used in ODIs and Test matches played outside of India, taking 21 Test and 15 ODI wickets in 2000. He took nine wickets against Zimbabwe in Delhi, and received his last Test Player of the Match award that year.
Inactive for much of 2001 due to emerging bowlers such asZaheer Khan andAjit Agarkar, he played eight Test matches and 15 ODIs. His Test career ended in 2002. Although Srinath wanted to retire from ODI, at the request of Indian captainSourav Ganguly he agreed to play until the World Cup. He participated in India's tour of New Zealand in January a few weeks before the World Cup, taking 18 wickets in seven matches.
Srinath was the second Indian bowler (after Kapil Dev) to take 200 wickets in Test cricket, with 236. Although some critics said that Srinath's average and strike rate suffered as a result of bowling to India's predominantly dry, spin-friendly wickets, his average at home was superior to his average abroad since he couldreverse-swing the ball.[14]
Srinath toured England with theLashings World XI team in summer 2005, and was a commentator for the India-England test series in 2006.[citation needed] In an interview, 1992 World Cup-winning Pakistan captainImran Khan said that after watching Srinath bowl 150 kilometres per hour (93 mph) on Indian pitches he considered him the most underrated bowler in the world.[citation needed]Courtney Walsh recommended Srinath for county cricket when he was injured. Srinath is a familiar face to cricket viewers around the world as a commentator andICC match referee.[citation needed] In 2010, he and former teammate Anil Kumble contested theKarnataka State Cricket Association elections. They won and Srinath, as secretary of the association, promotes young cricketers in Karnataka.[citation needed]
In April 2006, Srinath was selected as amatch referee by theInternational Cricket Council and served during the2007 World Cup.[14] He has refereed in 35 test matches, 268 ODIs and 60T20Is.[15][16][17][18]
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