Dilip Vengsarkar

Dilip Vengsarkar

Vengsarkar in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar
Born	(1956-04-06) 6 April 1956 (age 68) Rajapur, Maharashtra, India
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium
International information
National side	India (1976–1992)
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
1975/76–1991/92	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 – – 0 – 10 wickets in match – – 0 – Best bowling – – 1/31 – Catches/stumpings 78/– 37/– 179/– 51/–
Medal record Men's Cricket Representing  India ICC Cricket World Cup Winner 1983 England and Wales ACC Asia Cup Winner 1984 United Arab Emirates Winner 1988 Bangladesh
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 7 February 2010

Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar pronunciation^ⓘ (born 6 April 1956) is a former Indian cricketer and a cricket administrator. He was considered to have a very good drive. Along with Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath, he was a key player in the Indian batting line up in the late 70s and early 80s. He was a member of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup.Vengsarkar also led the national side to 1988 Asia Cup victory. He was also a part of the Indian squad which won the 1985 World Championship of Cricket. He went on to play until 1992.

At the pinnacle of his career, Vengsarkar was rated as the best batsman in the Coopers and Lybrand rating (a predecessor of the PWC ratings) and he held the number one slot for 21 months until 2 March 1989.^[1] In 2014, he received the C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honour conferred by BCCI on a former player.^[2]