Ajit Agarkar

Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar (Marathi: अजित भालचंद्र आगरकर)  pronunciation (help·info) (born 4 December 1977) is an Indian international cricketer, who has been on the fringes of the Indian side in both tests and one day matches since his debut in 1998. He is a fast bowling all-rounder, in the mould of Kapil Dev, who usually bats just below the wicket keeper at number 8, and often opens the bowling.

Bowling and Batting Style

He has a relatively short figure as compared to his other fast bowling counterparts. But still he could bowl at speeds more than 90MpH (~145 km/hr) owing to his athletic body and a good run up speed. He has had a knack to bowl the reverse swing deliveries when the ball gets old. He is a right hand batsman .He has been a decent batsman in ODIs and tests with a highest score of 95 and 109* respectively in each format.He usually bats lower down the order but has batted top of the order in ODIs.

Records

Early in his career, Agarkar broke Dennis Lillee's world record for the fastest 50 wickets in ODIs, achieving the feat from only 23 matches. He held the record from 1998 until 2009, when Ajantha Mendis achieved the feat from just 19 matches. However, Agarkar achieved the feat against prominent test teams unlike Mendis who captured most wickets (29 out of 50) against minnows like Zimbabwe and Bangladesh including 5 against UAE (non-test playing nation). Agarkar holds the Indian record of scoring the fastest 50 in ODI: he scored 50 of 21 balls. Agarkar also holds another ODI record, which is the quickest in terms of least number of matches played to take 200 wickets and complete 1000 runs. Agarkar achieved this feat in 133 matches breaking the previous record held by South African Shaun Pollock, who accomplished this feat in his 138th match.
He scored an unbeaten Test century at Lord's in 2002, batting at number eight.
Conversely, Agarkar attained the feat of seven consecutive innings resulting in ducks against Australia, an unfortunate honour

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