- Yashpal Sharma
Infobox cricketer biography
playername = Yashpal Sharma
country = India
fullname =
nickname =
living = true
dayofbirth = 11
monthofbirth = 8
yearofbirth = 1954
placeofbirth =Ludhiana , Punjab
countryofbirth =India
dayofdeath =
monthofdeath =
yearofdeath =
placeofdeath =
countryofdeath =
heightft =
heightinch =
heightm =
batting = Right-handed
bowling = Right arm medium
role =Batsman , occasional wicket-keeper, umpire
family =Chetan Sharma (nephew)international = true
testdebutdate = 2 August
testdebutyear = 1979
testdebutagainst = England
testc
lasttestdate = 3 November
lasttestyear = 1983
lasttestagainst = West Indies
odidebutdate = 13 October
odidebutyear = 1978
odidebutagainst = Pakistan
odic
lastodidate = 27 January
lastodiyear = 1985
lastodiagainst = England
odishirt =club1 = Punjab
year1 = 1973/74–1986/87
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club2 = Haryana
year2 = 1987/88–1989/90
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club3 = Railways
year3 = 1991/92–1992/93
clubnumber3 =deliveries = balls
columns = 4
column1 = Tests
matches1 = 37
runs1 = 1606
bat avg1 = 33.45
100s/50s1 = 2/9
top score1 = 140
deliveries1 = 30
wickets1 = 1
bowl avg1 = 17.00
fivefor1 = 0
tenfor1 = 0
best bowling1 = 1/6
catches/stumpings1 = 16/–
column2 = ODIs
matches2 = 42
runs2 = 883
bat avg2 = 28.48
100s/50s2 = 0/4
top score2 = 89
deliveries2 = 201
wickets2 = 1
bowl avg2 = 199.00
fivefor2 = 0
tenfor2 = n/a
best bowling2 = 1/27
catches/stumpings2 = 10/–
column3 = FC
matches3 = 160
runs3 = 8933
bat avg3 = 44.88
100s/50s3 = 21/46
top score3 = 201*
deliveries3 = 3650
wickets3 = 47
bowl avg3 = 33.70
fivefor3 = 1
tenfor3 = 0
best bowling3 = 5/106
catches/stumpings3 = 90/2
column4 = List A
matches4 = 74
runs4 = 1859
bat avg4 = 34.42
100s/50s4 = 0/12
top score4 = 91
deliveries4 = 568
wickets4 = 13
bowl avg4 = 36.76
fivefor4 = 0
tenfor4 = n/a
best bowling4 = 4/41
catches/stumpings4 = 28/1date = 30 September
year = 2008
source = http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1341/1341.html CricketArchiveYashpal Sharma audio|Yashpal_Sharma.ogg|pronunciation (born
August 11 ,1954 ,Ludhiana , Punjab was an Indian cricketer. He was a middle order batsman who played at the turn of the 1980s.Early career
Yashpal Sharma first drew attention when he scored 260 for Punjab schools against Jammu & Kashmir schools in
1972 . Within two years he was in the state team, and a member of the North Zone team that won theVizzy Trophy . His first major innings infirst class cricket was a 173 in theDuleep Trophy for North, against the South Zone which had Chandrasekhar,Erapalli Prasanna and Venkataraghavan. But he missed the tour toAustralia that followed immediately afterwards.A 99 runout in the
Irani Trophy the next year got Sharma a place in the team toPakistan a few weeks later. He played two one day matches in the tour. He went to England in 1979 as a part of the team that played in the World Cup. He did not play in any match but appeared in three Tests in the series that followed. He scored 884 runs at an average of 58 in the tour matches.International cricket
His form in England assured him of a Test place in the next few games. After scoring a pair against Australia in the Kanpur Test, Sharma scored his first Test hundred in the very next match. He could have scored another in the next Test at Calcutta, but with 3.4 overs still left before the end of the Test, he appealed against light. Through the
1979 -80 season, Sharma played a series of steady but unexceptional innings where he often played a supportive role to a senior batsman. He was basically a defensive batsman but could hit very hard when needed.His made his highest first class score against Victoria in
1980 -81, a 465 minute 201*. In the Adelaide Test of that series, Sharma hit 47 and 147 withSandeep Patil . This was his only innings of some consequence in the tour and he was soon dropped. On his comeback, at Madras in1981 -82, he hit 140. His batted through the second day of the match withGundappa Viswanath and their third wicket partnership contributed 316 runs. At Port of Spain next year, he was struck on the head byMalcolm Marshall and forced to retire.After a few ordinary performances, Sharma was lucky to be picked for the Indian team for the 1983 World Cup. But the Indian win provided him with some of his finest moments. In the opening match he top scored with 89 as India caused West Indies their first defeat in a world cup match. In the semifinal against England he again top scored with 61 - a flick over square leg for six off a near yorker from
Bob Willis being a memorable shot.Fading away
Back home, he failed completely against the touring Pakistanis. In the three day match for North Zone against the West Indians at
Amritsar , he hitViv Richards for four consecutive sixes. But two more failures in the international matches against them virtually ended his career. He appeared in four one day matches against England the next year and scored more than ten in only one.Sharma left Punjab and joined Haryana in
1987 -88. He spent another two years with Railways. At the age of 37, he was still good enough to score hundreds in consecutive matches in1991 - 92. Yashpal was the uncle ofChetan Sharma who went on to represent India.Notes
* Cricketarchive and the current version of
Cricinfo supply no middle name for Sharma. But a middle name 'Baburam ' appears in an older version of Cricinfo (which can be found via google), Indian Cricket and Sujit Mukherjee ref|SMReferences
* Sujit Mukherjee, "Matched Winners", Orient Longman publishers (1996), p 152-164
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