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Somasunder, Hirwani tops
Mohandas Menon |
April 01, 2003 18:40 IST
Former Karnataka and India batsman Sujith Somasunder, who now plays for Kerala, tops the runs aggregate in first class matches in the 2002-03 Indian domestic season, having scored 964 runs, at an impressive average of 60.25 in 10 matches. He is closely followed by Mumbai opening batsman Wasim Jaffer, who has 941 runs, at an average of 55.35, to his name.
Young Delhi left-hander Gautam Gambhir has the highest average of 81.30, having scored 813 runs in eight matches. He is a certainity for the Indian team for the Dhaka triangular series following a consistent showing for the India 'A' team in the West Indies domestic Carib series.
Veteran spinner Narendra Hirwani from Madhya Pradesh tops the bowling charts with 73 wickets in nine matches, at an average of 17.38.
India discard Sunil Joshi is the only other bowler to pick more than 50 wickets -- 52 wickets in 9 matches, with an average of 17.11.
Following is a summary of the leading batsmen and bowlers:
Top run-getters this season - in all first-class matches (as on 1-4-2003)
| Batsman | Runs | Mts | Avg |
| S Somasunder | 964 | 10 | 60.25 |
| W Jaffer | 941 | 11 | 55.35 |
| AA Pagnis | 900 | 10 | 52.94 |
| J Arunkumar | 864 | 10 | 57.60 |
| S Sriram | 862 | 9 | 78.36 |
| G Gambhir | 813 | 8 | 81.30 |
| Yashpal Singh | 804 | 7 | 73.09 |
| HH Kanitkar | 797 | 7 | 61.30 |
| Y Venugopal Rao | 724 | 10 | 45.25 |
| AR Khurasiya | 717 | 9 | 51.21 |
| VST Naidu | 717 | 9 | 59.75 |
| MSK Prasad | 711 | 9 | 50.78 |
| SS Parab | 710 | 8 | 64.54 |
| DS Manohar | 700 | 9 | 46.66 |
Top wicket-takers this season - in all first-class matches (as on 1-4-2003)| Bowler | Wkts | Mts | Avg |
| ND Hirwani | 73 | 9 | 17.38 |
| Sunil B Joshi | 52 | 9 | 17.11 |
| A Bhandari | 46 | 9 | 21.71 |
| KS Parida | 42 | 10 | 30.80 |
| RJ Kanwat | 41 | 11 | 24.00 |
| L Balaji | 38 | 6 | 13.18 |
| KNA Padmanabhan | 38 | 7 | 13.63 |
| Sarandeep Singh | 37 | 11 | 34.89 |
| D Ganesh | 36 | 9 | 25.66 |
| F Shaikh | 35 | 5 | 20.40 |
| SV Bahutule | 35 | 10 | 20.11 |
| Irfan Pathan-jr | 34 | 10 | 32.85 |
| Amit Mishra | 32 | 6 | 22.75 |
| PV Gandhe | 32 | 6 | 20.25 |
| S Santh | 32 | 10 | 27.87 |
| M Acharya | 30 | 6 | 24.73 |
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Sub: Hirwani
It is not a bad idea to include Hirwani in either Indian side or India "A" side with Amit Mishra so that a trend of ...
Posted by prashant
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Sub: Improvement in spin department
In World Cup 2003 , Indian medium pacers did extremely well. In the euphoria of that success we have forgotten how our spin bowling lacked ...
Posted by Mangesh
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Sub: Learn from Australia!
Andy Bichel is an oldie (in age) in the team and he is a freshie (in international experience) as well! Age should not be the ...
Posted by Das
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Sub: india has and had genuine fast bowlers
who says we have not produced genuine quick bowlers.We have produced srinath who is the fastest bowler we have produced since mohammed nissar.In his prime ...
Posted by ati
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Sub: Derth of genuine pace bowlers
Its quite a sad story in India that we lack genuine quick bowlers. In the past also, we never had genuine quickies. Even in the ...
Posted by Aniruddha Roy
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