Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Navjot Singh Sidhu (born October 20, 1963) is an Indian cricket commentator. He was born in Patiala in Punjab.
He had a reasonably long career as an international cricketer (batsman) (1983-1999).
He made an uneventful international debut against the West Indies at Ahmedabad in 1983 scoring just 19 runs in his debut test match. He was given another chance in that series but failed again. He was selected for the 1987 cricket World Cup in India scoring 73 on his ODI debut in a losing effort against Australia. He scored 50s in 4 of the 5 World Cup 1987 matches in which he batted but failed in the semifinal against England. His maiden ODI century came against Pakistan in Sharjah in 1989 while his 134 against England at Gwalior in 1993 was his highest ODI score and the innings which he called his best when he retired in 1999.
It was during the later part of his career that he was recognised as a classy test batsman when he scored over 500 test runs in a year thrice (1993, 1994 and 1997). His only test double century came during India's 1994 tour of West Indies. In 1994, he scored 885 ODI runs.
He announced his retirement from all forms of cricket in December 1999. He played over 50 test matches and over 100 ODIs scoring over 7,000 international runs. He has 27 first class centuries to his credit in a career that spanned 18 years.
Sidhu won on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket from the Amritsar Seat in the seat in the Indian general elections, 2004
External links
- Cricinfo articles
- "India's finest opener in the post Gavaskar era" (http://usa.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/1999/DEC/011198_CI_03DEC1999.html)
- "The Sidhu I will remember" - an article by Partab Ramchand (http://usa.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/1999/DEC/011191_CI_03DEC1999.html)
- "Sherry calls it a day" - retirement announcement (http://usa.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/1999/DEC/011114_CI_02DEC1999.html)
- Article paying tribute to Sidhu on his 36th birthday (http://usa.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/1999/OCT/006586_CI_20OCT1999.html)