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Full name Devang Jayant Gandhi
Born September 6, 1971, Bhavnagar, Gujarat
Current age 36 years 351 days
Major teams India,Bengal,Essex Cricket Board
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
4
7
1
204
88
34.00
545
37.43
0
2
27
1
3
0
ODIs
3
3
0
49
30
16.33
97
50.51
0
0
8
0
0
0
First-class
95
150
7
6111
323
42.73
16
27
67
0
List A
98
95
9
3402
164*
39.55
9
16
32
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ODIs
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
95
734
334
6
2/10
55.66
2.73
122.3
0
0
List A
98
789
605
17
3/19
3/19
35.58
4.60
46.4
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
India v New Zealand at Mohali, Oct 10-14, 1999 scorecard
Last Test
Australia v India at Adelaide, Dec 10-14, 1999 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
India v New Zealand at Delhi, Nov 17, 1999 scorecard
Last ODI
Australia v India at Perth, Jan 30, 2000 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut
1994/95
Last First-class
Karnataka v Bengal at Mysore, Dec 17-20, 2005 scorecard
List A span
1994/95 - 2004/05
Profile
Though the tour of Australia in 1999-2000 exposed Devang Gandhi's technique against the fast, short rising deliveries, he continued to play well at domestic level. His international career started so well, albeit on Indian wickets. Against New Zealand in his debut series, Gandhi seemed completely at ease in handling the new ball and he was at once hailed an opening batsmen of considerable promise. Two successive opening stands with Sadagopan Ramesh in the Tests marked him out as a batsman who seemed to have everything - strokes, technique, temparament and courage. Then came the nightmarish tour of Australia and suddenly Gandhi found the critics writing his epitaph. While he was not discouraged by such adverse comments, Gandhi's resolve was not enough to enable him to fight his way back into the Indian team. He announced his retirement in April 2006.
Partab Ramchand
