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Full name Abhijit Vasant Kale
Born July 3, 1973, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra
Current age 35 years 103 days
Major teams Maharashtra
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
ODIs
1
1
0
10
10
10.00
22
45.45
0
0
1
0
0
0
First-class
93
145
14
7134
248*
54.45
25
28
75
0
List A
65
62
15
2111
102
44.91
2
17
22
1
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
ODIs
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
93
560
339
3
1/3
113.00
3.63
186.6
0
0
List A
65
15
24
0
-
-
-
9.60
-
0
0
0
Career statistics
Only ODI
Bangladesh v India at Dhaka, Apr 16, 2003 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1993/94 - 2006/07
List A span
1993/94 - 2004/05
Profile
Abhijit Kale has been a prolific scorer in the Indian domestic scene over the past few years but has never made it past the periphery of the national team. He began his career as an opener and first hit the headlines with a hundred for the India Under-19 team against the New Zealanders in 1992. Though he hailed from Mumbai, he could not break into their star-studded team, which led him to defect to Maharashtra. He went on to become one of the pillars of Maharashtra's middle order in the nineties, averaging close to 60 in first-class cricket. He top-scored for India A against the touring England side in November 2001 and came into the reckoning for the national squad. He also had a good A tour to West Indies in early 2003 and he was rewarded with a place in the national side a few months after that, for the tri-series which also involved South Africa and Bangladesh. However, he got only one game. In November that year, Kale was the central character in a bribery scandal, when two national selectors accused him of offering money to be picked to the Indian squad. Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
