| Personal information | ||||
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| Full name | Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar | |||
| Born | 6 April 1956 Rajapur, India |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right arm medium | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | India | |||
| Test debut (cap 139) | 24 January 1976 v New Zealand | |||
| Last Test | 5 February 1992 v Australia | |||
| ODI debut (cap 19) | 21 February 1976 v New Zealand | |||
| Last ODI | 14 November 1991 v South Africa | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1975–1992 | Mumbai | |||
| 1985 | Staffordshire | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Test | ODI | FC | LA |
| Matches | 116 | 129 | 260 | 174 |
| Runs scored | 6,868 | 3,508 | 17,868 | 4,835 |
| Batting average | 42.13 | 34.73 | 52.86 | 35.29 |
| 100s/50s | 17/35 | 1/23 | 55/87 | 1/35 |
| Top score | 166 | 105 | 284 | 105 |
| Balls bowled | 47 | 6 | 199 | 12 |
| Wickets | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Bowling average | – | – | 126.00 | – |
| 5 wickets in innings | – | – | – | – |
| 10 wickets in match | – | n/a | – | n/a |
| Best bowling | – | – | 1/31 | – |
| Catches/stumpings | 78/– | 37/– | 179/– | 51/– |
| Source: Cricinfo, 7 February 2010 | ||||
Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar (born 6 April 1956) is an Indian cricketer and cricket administrator. He was one of the most stylish batsmen of his time, known as one of the foremost exponents of the drive. He was also known by the nickname 'Colonel'.
Vengsarkar made his international cricket debut against New Zealand at Auckland in 1975–76 as an opening batsmen. India won this Test convincingly, but he did not have much success.
He played a memorable innings in 1979 against Asif Iqbal's Pakistan team in the 2nd Test at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi. Requiring 390 to win on the final day, he led India's chase getting the team very close to a victory. India ended up with 364 for 6, just 26 runs short of what would have been a remarkable win. With Yashpal Sharma, Kapil Dev and Roger Binny back to the pavilion after Tea break, Vengsarkar saw himself running out of partners and decided to play the last few overs for a draw. He remained unbeaten at 146.
He was a member of the 1983 World Champion's team. He had a productive run of scores between 1985 and 1987, where he scored centuries against Pakistan, Australia, England, West Indies and Sri Lanka, many of them in successive games. At this pinnacle of his career, He was rated as the best batsmen in the Coopers and Lybrand rating (a predecessor of the PWC ratings).
While the West Indies pacemen dominated the cricket world, Dilip Vengsarkar was one of the few batsmen who was successful against them, and scored 6 centuries against the likes of Marshall, Holding and Roberts.
He also scored a century at Lord's in 1986 and thereby attaining the distinction of scoring three consecutive Test match centuries at Lord's. For his effort to help India win the Test series in England (a rare feat in itself) he was awarded the Man of the Series award. For Test matches played in India, he has one of the highest batting averages.
Vengsarkar took over the captaincy from Kapil Dev after the 1987 Cricket World Cup, despite criticism that he missed the semi-final match due to a stomach disorder resulting from sea food allergy. Although he started with two centuries in his first series as captain, his captaincy period was turbulent and he lost the job following a disastrous tour of the West Indies in early 1989 and a stand-off with the Indian cricket board (BCCI).
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In his retirement life, Dilip Vengsarkar started the Elf-Vengsarkar Academy[2] in 1995. Vengsarkar became the Vice-President for the Mumbai Cricket Association in 2003.[3] Though, he was the front runner for the post of the Chairman, Selection Committee, Dilip opted out because of his policy against zonal representation.[4] Dilip Vengsarkar was made the Chairman of the Talent Resource Development Wing (TRDW) when it was created in 2002 to develop cricket talent within the country. The TRDW program also had the support of Brijesh Patel[5]..
In March 2006, BCCI proposed the name of Vengsarkar for match referee,[6] but the proposal did not move forward as Vengsarkar accepted the job as chairman of selectors of the BCCI[7] in September 2006 - in contrast to his stance on zonal representation a decade ago.
He runs three cricket academies, two in Mumbai and one in Pune. These academies give cricket training free of cost to the selected players selected on their skill level.
| Preceded by Kapil Dev |
Indian National Test Cricket Captain 1987/88 |
Succeeded by Ravi Shastri |
| Preceded by Ravi Shastri |
Indian National Test Cricket Captain 1987/88–1989/90 |
Succeeded by Krishnamachari Srikkanth |
| Preceded by Kiran More |
Chairman, Selection Committee October 2006 – September 2008 |
Succeeded by Krishnamachari Srikkanth |
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