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| Full name | Sandeep Madhusudan Patil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1956-08-18)18 August 1956 (age 68) Bombay,Bombay State, India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut (cap 149) | 15 January 1980 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 12 December 1984 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 32) | 6 December 1980 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 26 May 1986 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sandeep Patil (pronunciationⓘ; born 18 August 1956) is an Indian former cricketer, India national age-group cricket manager and formerKenya national team coach, who guided the underdogs to the semi-finals of the2003 World Cup. He was a hard-hittingmiddle order batsman and an occasionalmedium pace bowler. Patil was a member of the Indian team that won the1983 Cricket World Cup and the1984 Asia Cup. He was the coach of Mumbai Champs in theIndian Cricket League, but returned to the mainstream when he cut ties with the unofficial league in 2009.[1] He later served as the director of theNational Cricket Academy (NCA)[2] and as the chief of the BCCI Selection Committee.[3]
Sandeep Patil was born on 18 August 1956 inMumbai. His father, Madhusudan Patil, was a former first-class cricketer,[4] national level badminton player and skilled player of tennis and football. He grew up in theShivaji Park area in Bombay, studied inBalmohan Vidyamandir andRamnarain Ruia College and was coached by Ankush 'Anna' Vaidya.
In the early part of his career, Patil was as much a medium pacer who bowled off the wrong foot, as he was a batsman. Following three successful years for the Bombay university in theRohinton Baria Trophy, he made theBombayRanji team in 1975–76. After being on and off the team for three seasons, he played his first major innings against Delhi in the 1979 semifinal. Going in at No.6 after Bombay lost the first four wickets for 72, Patil hit 145 in 276 minutes with 18 fours and a six, none of his partners made more than 25.[5] Patil played for Edmonton in the Middlesex league in 1979 and 1980, and for Somerset 'B' in the latter year.
Australia andPakistan visited India in 1979–80. Patil appeared in tour matches for West Zone against both teams, scoring 44 and 23 against Australia,[6] and 68 and 71 against Pakistan.[6] This earned him the selection in the last two Test matches against Pakistan. A week before making the debut, he made his career-best first class score againstSaurashtra at theWankhede Stadium. Coming in to bat in the second morning he was 45* at lunch, reached his hundred in 139 balls scoring 105 in the second session, and ended up with 210 made in 205 balls with seven sixes and nineteen fours.[7] The last of the sixes cleared the stadium (a very rare feat at the Wankhede) and landed in the hockey grounds outside. Patil made 62 in the final Test atCalcutta,[8] appeared in the Golden Jubilee Test againstEngland later in the season[9] and was selected for the tour ofAustralia in 1980–81.
In the early matches of the Australian tour, he scored 116 againstSouth Australia,[10] which includedRodney Hogg, and 60 and 97 againstQueensland which hadJeff Thomson,Geoff Dymock andCarl Rackemann.[11] He won the man of the match on hisODI debut for a 64 against Australia.[12]
In the first innings of the first Test atSydney Patil had reached 65 when just before the tea break on the first day, he was hit on the throat by Hogg. Continuing without a helmet, he was hit over the right ear by abouncer byLen Pascoe in the first over after tea. Patil collapsed in the crease and had to retire hurt. Though still unwell, he batted in the second innings at the insistence of captainSunil Gavaskar as India struggled to avoid aninnings defeat.[13]
Two weeks later, with a helmet on, Patil hit a spectacular 174 in theAdelaide Test. It came after India lost the first four wickets for 130 against the Australian total of 528. At the time, the highest score in an innings by an Indian in Australia, it took him just over five hours and included 22 fours and a six over mid-wicket offBruce Yardley.[14] In the next series against New Zealand, Patil opened the bowling for India along withKapil Dev in the Auckland Test.[15]
Patil found himself out of the team after four Tests in the home series againstEngland in 1981–82 but was picked for the away series that followed immediately after. Here in theManchester Test he scored his second hundred. India was in some danger offollowing on when he added 96 runs withKapil Dev a little over an hour. England took the second new ball soon after and Patil hit the last two balls of an over fromIan Botham for four and three. In the next over he hitBob Willis for six fours (4440444, the third ball being a no ball) – "two cover drives, one flat batted back over the bowler's head, two square cuts of ferocious power and a mighty hook"[1]- taking his score from 73 to 104 in nine balls. He was 129 not out when rain brought an early end to the match.[16]
Another hundred followed againstSri Lanka in September but he was again out the team by the middle of the season. While the Indian team touredWest Indies, he scored 121* in 84 balls in the second innings of the Ranji final againstKarnataka. All his runs came in single session on the final day as Bombay was targeting a declaration.[17] Patil scored 216 runs in eight matches in thePrudential World Cup including 51* in the semifinal against England.[18] He scored 609 runs in the 1983–84 Ranji season, and his fourth and last Test hundred against Pakistan atFaisalabad.
On the last day of theDelhi Test against England in December 1984, with his score on 41, Patil was caught at long on attempting a big hit off the bowling ofPhil Edmonds.[19] This was viewed as "throwing away his wicket" when in fact it was in his natural style of attacking batting, it triggered a collapse and India lost the match that could well have been saved. Patil was dropped in the next test atKolkata as a disciplinary measure, along with Kapil Dev who also fell to a similar shot off the bowling ofPat Pocock.Mohammad Azharuddin who took his place scored hundreds in his first three Test matches and Patil played no more Test cricket, although Kapil Dev would return to squad. In 1986, he was recalled for a few more one day matches. He also toured England without appearing in Tests.
Patil announced his retirement fromfirst class cricket after appearing for Bombay against the Australians in September 1986. But he came back to captain theMadhya Pradesh cricket team from 1988 to 1993 with considerable success. One of the more notable innings was a 185 against Bombay in 1990.[20] He went on to coach the India national team and the 'A' team. As the coach ofKenya, he guided them to an unlikely semifinal place in the2003 World Cup.
He served as chairman of selectors of theBoard of Control for Cricket in India from 27 September 2012 to September 2016.
Soon after the1983 Cricket World Cup victory, Patil was offered byVijay Singh to play the lead opposite twoBollywood actressesPoonam Dhillon andDebashree Roy inKabhie Ajnabi The, whileSyed Kirmani was offered to essay the role of the antagonist.[21] Reportedly Patil got so occupied with hisBollywood debut that he refused to participate in theWest Indies tour in 1983.[22] Though the cricketer later reasoned that he had opted out of that tour because he was nursing an injury at that time.[23] The filming began in 1983 and the film was released in 1985. The film was highly publicised on the fighting sequence between Patil andKirmani as well as his chemistry withDebashree Roy, especially in the song sequenceGeet Mere Hothon Ko Dey Gaya Koi.[24][25] It opened with 80% seat occupancy but ultimately became a major debacle at the box office.[24][25]
"Sandeep Patil ended up coaching neither Poonam Dhillon nor Debashree Roy on the sets of Kabhi Ajnabi The. Where Sandeep tarried far too long about being a Debashreeman, Miss Roy went on to become a captive star sought by Bengal's topmost cineaste directors. While Poonam, right now, is making telewaves as the heartbeat of NDTV-India's Abhigyan Prakash. Wasn't it Kapil Dev who remarked, as he saw the Patil Boy act dashed awkward in Kabhi Ajnabi The, that Sandeep was as slow in going for Debashree-Poonam as he was in going for the high ball in the field?”
ESPN wrote on his performance, "he even aces the love-struck Hindi film hero's signature move of producing notes from a guitar without moving either hand".[27]Sportstar commented on his performance that he acted "dashed awkward" in the film.[26]The Tribune wrote, "In contrast to their heroics in the 1983 World Cup, Patil and Kirmani were clean bowled on the big screen".[28]
Patil edited Marathi sports magazineEkach Shatkar which was, once a top selling sports magazine inMaharashtra.[29] It outsoldSportstar and was often considered as the last nail in the coffin ofSportsweek. The largest selling newspaperMahanagar was also started in his garage.[30]
In 1983, Patil was married when he metDebashree Roy on the set ofKabhie Ajnabi The (1985) and reportedly had an affair with her.[31][32] Indian media interpreted their affair as the sole reason for the failure of his first marriage.[33][34][35] Reportedly, soon after the release of the film they discontinued their relationship and never publicly discussed anything on their separation.[25] He later married Deepa.[36] He has two sons,Chirag Patil and Prateek Patil.[37] He wrote his autobiographySandy Storm in 1984.
Chirag Patil, Patil's elder son portrayed him inKabir Khan's83 (2021) which also starsRanveer Singh asKapil Dev.[38]
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