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Full name Aakash Chopra
Born September 19, 1977, Agra, Uttar Pradesh
Current age 27 years 298 days
Major teams India, Delhi
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
st
Tests 10 19 0 437 60 23.00 1263 34.60 0 2 49 0 15 0
First-class 85 143 15 5826 222 45.51 14 33 105 0
List A 31 30 3 1062 109 39.33 2 8 16 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 10 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
First-class 85 144 81 2 2/7 40.50 3.37 72.00 0 0
List A 31 84 58 1 1/17 1/17 58.00 4.14 84.00 0 0 0
Test debut India v New Zealand at Ahmedabad - Oct
8-12, 2003 scorecard
Last Test India v Australia at Nagpur - Oct 26-29, 2004 scorecard
First-class span 1997/98 - 2004/05
List A span 1996/97 – 2004
Aakash Chopra is best described by the words short,
stout and gutsy. An opener from the time he started playing the
game, Chopra's temperament is perfectly suited to occupation of the
crease and seeing the shine off the leather. Those attributes came
handy for him, and for India, just when they were hunting
desperately for a pair of good openers. After a right-knee injury
laid him low at the end of 2002-03, Chopra started the new season
with a sound batting display in the two-Test series at home against
New Zealand. That earned him a ticket to Australia, where he
enhanced his reputation further by giving Indian solid starts in
partnership with his Delhi team-mate, Virender Sehwag. Deeply
religious, Chopra has a calm demeanour and an ever-present smile
across his face. Although he failed to cross the 50-mark in the four
Tests against Australia, he showed enough patience to spend valuable
time in the middle, see off the new ball and build a solid platform
from which the strong middle order could elevate India to greater
heights. He also showed himself to be an outstanding close-in
fielder, invoking comparisons with the legendary Eknath Solkar.
Unfortunately, the advent of Yuvraj Singh as a match-turning batsman
at Test level on the tour of Pakistan in 2004 meant that Chopra was
relegated to the status of squad player, though he will no doubt
have a role to play in testing conditions outside the subcontinent.
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