Loading ...Murali Kartik
India
Full name Murali Kartik
Born September 11, 1976, Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu
Current age 31 years 214 days
Major teams India, India Green, Kolkata Knight Riders, Lancashire, Middlesex, Railways
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
| Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s | Ct | St | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tests | 8 | 10 | 1 | 88 | 43 | 9.77 | 231 | 38.09 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| ODIs | 37 | 14 | 5 | 126 | 32* | 14.00 | 178 | 70.78 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| T20Is | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 |
| First-class | 118 | 140 | 19 | 2259 | 96 | 18.66 | 0 | 11 | 76 | 0 | ||||
| List A | 152 | 69 | 23 | 504 | 37* | 10.95 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 0 | ||||
| Twenty20 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1* | 1.00 | 1 | 100.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tests | 8 | 15 | 1932 | 820 | 24 | 4/44 | 7/76 | 34.16 | 2.54 | 80.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| ODIs | 37 | 36 | 1907 | 1612 | 37 | 6/27 | 6/27 | 43.56 | 5.07 | 51.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| T20Is | 1 | 1 | 24 | 27 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.75 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| First-class | 118 | 25980 | 10508 | 408 | 9/70 | 25.75 | 2.42 | 63.6 | 23 | 3 | |||
| List A | 152 | 7805 | 5655 | 188 | 6/27 | 6/27 | 30.07 | 4.34 | 41.5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| Twenty20 | 7 | 6 | 126 | 124 | 9 | 5/13 | 5/13 | 13.77 | 5.90 | 14.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Test debut | India v South Africa at Mumbai, Feb 24-26, 2000 |
| Last Test | India v South Africa at Kanpur, Nov 20-24, 2004 |
| ODI debut | India v Zimbabwe at Hyderabad (Decc), Mar 16, 2002 |
| Last ODI | India v Pakistan at Jaipur, Nov 18, 2007 |
| Only T20I | India v Australia at Mumbai (BS), Oct 20, 2007 |
| First-class debut | 1996/97 |
| Last First-class | Central Zone v West Zone at Rajkot, Jan 26-29, 2008 |
| List A debut | 1996/97 |
| Last List A | Central Zone v North Zone at Bangalore, Mar 17, 2008 |
| Twenty20 debut | Surrey v Middlesex at The Oval, Jun 22, 2007 |
| Last Twenty20 | India v Australia at Mumbai (BS), Oct 20, 2007 |
| Profile |
A left-arm spinner in the classical mould, Murali Kartik has long been on the fringes of the national team. He has a high-arm action straight from the coaching manual, and possesses all the weapons in his armoury. But he hasn’t always had the breaks, and has regularly played the understudy to Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh. Kartik forced his way into the Indian team in 1999-2000 after impressive performances in the domestic games, but didn’t seem to enjoy Sourav Ganguly’s confidence and was either used as a defensive option or underbowled. He made his mark as a one-day bowler against West Indies in 2002-03, consistently keeping the batsmen in check on flat pitches. However, his best moment clearly came at Mumbai, against Australia in 2004-05 when he ran through the Australian batting on a dustbowl, taking seven wickets in the match to bowl India to a famous win. However he got to play just one Test more before being consigned to the periphery. His stint with Middlesex in 2007, though, brought him back into contention and his 12 wickets at 20.75 from eight Pro40 games allowed him to break back into the Indian one-day side in the middle of the seven-match series against Australia in October 2007
