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Full name Dilip Rasiklal Doshi
Born December 22, 1947, Rajkot, Gujarat
Current age 60 years 290 days
Major teams India,Bengal,Hertfordshire,Nottinghamshire,Saurashtra,Warwickshire
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
Relations Son - ND Doshi
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
33
38
10
129
20
4.60
0
0
13
0
10
0
ODIs
15
5
2
9
5*
3.00
20
45.00
0
0
0
0
3
0
First-class
238
253
70
1442
44
7.87
0
0
62
0
List A
59
23
10
95
19*
7.30
0
0
6
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
33
55
9322
3502
114
6/102
8/103
30.71
2.25
81.7
4
6
0
ODIs
15
15
792
524
22
4/30
4/30
23.81
3.96
36.0
2
0
0
First-class
238
58712
23874
898
7/29
26.58
2.43
65.3
43
6
List A
59
1935
75
5/24
5/24
25.80
3
1
0
Career statistics
Test debut
India v Australia at Chennai, Sep 11-16, 1979 scorecard
Last Test
India v Pakistan at Bangalore, Sep 14-19, 1983 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Australia v India at Melbourne, Dec 6, 1980 scorecard
Last ODI
Pakistan v India at Multan, Dec 17, 1982 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1968/69 - 1986
List A span
1973/74 - 1982/83
Profile
Immaculate control of flight and turn made Dilip Doshi a much-respected left-arm spinner in English county cricket some time before he donned his country's colours. In another age, Doshi might have gone on to play 100 Tests for India. But like Rajinder Goel and Padmakar Shivalkar before him, he was doomed to play out the bulk of his career in the immense shadow of Bishan Singh Bedi. An intelligent and patient bowler, Doshi was effective on even the most placid tracks. He played his first Test in 1979-80, when he was 32, and immediately became Kapil Dev's main foil in an emasculated attack. For the next three years, he was an ever-present figure, glasses gleaming, and reached 100 wickets in only 28 Tests (he and the legendary Australian legspinner Clarrie Grimmett are the only two to reach that landmark after making their debuts past 30). Doshi's uneasy relationship with Sunil Gavaskar - especially during the Pakistan tour of 1982-83 - was primarily responsible for his Test career running into a brick wall.
Dileep Premachandran
