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| Full name | Naman Vinayakumar Ojha | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1983-07-20)20 July 1983 (age 41) Ujjain,Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Wicket-keeper batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Only Test (cap 285) | 28 August 2015 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Only ODI (cap 186) | 5 June 2010 v Sri Lanka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI shirt no. | 30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 32) | 12 June 2010 v Zimbabwe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 13 June 2010 v Zimbabwe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001-2021 | Madhya Pradesh(squad no. 30) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Rajasthan Royals(squad no. 30) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | Delhi Daredevils(squad no. 30) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2017 | Sunrisers Hyderabad(squad no. 53) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Delhi Daredevils(squad no. 48) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | India Legends | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,15 February 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Naman Vinaykumar Ojha (born 20 July 1983) is an Indian formercricketer. He made hisTest debut for Indiaagainst Sri Lanka on 28 August 2015.[1] He retired from all formats of cricket on 15 February 2021.[2]
Naman Ojha was named as the captain of the India A team, which took part in the two unofficial 'Tests' and a four-nation one-day tournament, in Australia in 2016. DuringAustralia tour with India A team in 2014 he struck a double hundred and a hundred in a four-day match.[3]
A capable top-order batsman and wicketkeeper, Ojha made his first-class debut forMadhya Pradesh in 2000–01.[4]
He representedRajasthan Royals in the 2009Indian Premier League inSouth Africa.[5] He opened the batting for theRajasthan Royals and played some important innings. He scored two half centuries and hit 11 sixes in the tournament. He also plays for Indore in Madhya Pradesh T20 League.
In July 2014, playing for India A in an unofficial test, Naman scored an unbeaten 219 that included 29 boundaries and 8 sixes atBrisbane.In June 2016, in his next tour to Australia representing India A, Naman was named the captain.[6]
Ojha made his first-class debut forMadhya Pradesh in 2000/01. He has tasted success in the limited-overs format and in the 2008/09Challenger Trophy scored 96 for India Green.
Rajasthan Royals came calling during the second season of theIndian Premier League (IPL) and in his second game smashed a half-century.
In November 2013, Ojha hit the tenth century of his first-class career in Madhya Pradesh's first innings againstBengal. This was Ojha's first fifty-plus score in 13 innings.
The last time he had hit a fifty-plus score in first-class cricket was also againstBengal in the last season when he was stumped on 99.
In March 2014, Ojha scored 94 nearly guided Madhya Pradesh to victory, but tight bowling fromRailways resulted in MP falling eight runs short.
Ojha scored unbeaten 65 guidedCentral Zone to a win in a tricky chase againstEast Zone in the quarterfinals of theDeodhar Trophy.
In 2014 IPL auctions, he was signed bySunrisers Hyderabad for a fee of 83 lakhs Indian rupees. Sunrisers Hyderabad had been searching for an Indian batsman to support their big-name top order and he had 79 off 36.
Sandeep Sharma's medium pace enabled him to drive Sunrisers Hyderabad past the 200-mark. The 26 runs that came in the 19th over meant Sandeep's 1 for 65 became the joint second-worst figures in IPL.
In his 100th first-class match Ojha scored hundred in both innings while playing for India A against Australia A atAllan Border Field,Brisbane, in July 2014. He scored a double century in the first innings and added 122 runs with Nos. 10 and 11, whose combined contributions to those two partnerships was 11 runs, before India A declared on 9 for 475. Naman's unbeaten 219 came off 250 balls, with 29 fours and eight sixes. After reaching his 100, he scored 119 runs in 114 balls.
In January 2018, he was bought by theDelhi Daredevils in the2018 IPL auction.[7]
Ojha's senior debut came when he was included as a back-up wicket-keeper in the T20I side forIndia's 2010 tour of Zimbabwe and anODI Tri-series on the same tour, when the selectors decided to rest several senior players including wicket-keeperMahendra Singh Dhoni.[8] His Test debut came at the age of 32, in August 2015, in the third Test ofIndia's tour of Sri Lanka, after wicket-keeperWriddhiman Saha had to sit out due to a hamstring injury. Ojha finished the Test with 56 runs, four catches and one stumping.[9][10]