Personal Information

Full Name Kirtivardhan Bhagwat Jha Azad
Born January 2, 1959 Purnea, Bihar
Age 65 Years, 9 Months, 10 Days
National Side India
Batting Style Right Handed
Bowling Off break
Sport Cricket

Ranking

Test ODI T20
Batting - - -
Bowling - - -

Man of the Match

Test ODI T20 World Cup CL
0 0 - 0 -

Career Information

Teams Played India
Career Span

Kirtivardhan Bhagwat Jha Azad Overall Stats

Batting & Fielding Performance

M I N/O R HS 100s 50s 4s 6s AVG S/R CT ST Ducks R/O
Test
7 12 0 135 24 v ENG 0 0 13 0 11.25 - 3 0
ODI
25 21 2 269 39* v AUS 0 0 19 9 14.15 67.25 7 0
World Cup
3 2 0 15 15 v AUS 0 0 1 0 7.50 71.42 - -

Bowling Performance

I O M R W Best 3s 5s AVG E/R S/R Mtc
Test
10 125 28 373 3 2/84 v WI 0 0 124.33 2.98 250.00
ODI
11 65 4 273 7 2/48 v AUS 0 0 39.00 4.20 55.71
World Cup
3 17 1 42 1 1/28 v ENG 0 0 42.00 2.47 102.00

Kirtivardhan Bhagwat Jha Azad Profile

Kirtivardhan (Kirti) Azad was a former Indian cricketer and was part of the squad that won the 1983 CWC. He is remembered for his swashbuckling style of batting and for his quick off breaks. His international career was pretty much a stop-start affair which made for only an occasional break through to the national team. Even though his international career spanned six years, he played only seven Tests and 25 ODI's for the country.

He was a surprise choice to the team for the tour of Australia and New Zealand back in 1980-81 and made his debut in a Test match at Wellington. Success wasn't very forthcoming though and as a result of this he was dropped but was recalled to the squad for the 1983 World Cup. Azad played a major hand in the semi-finals of that World Cup against England where he skittled their famed middle-order. This also included getting the danger man Ian Botham bowled.

Another noteworthy innings was an exhibition match again arch-rivals Pakistan in 1983 at Delhi where Pakistan batted first and put up 197/3. Azad took all three wickets and returned with the bat to score a breezy 71 to guide India to a one run win.

He was also a great all-rounder for the Delhi Ranji team scoring 4867 runs at an average of 47.72 with his best score being 215 against Himachal Pradesh in 1985-86. Following his playing days, he attempted to get into broadcasting in English for television but couldn't quite make it. He followed his father into politics and was elected to parliament.