Ravinder Bopara
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| Ravi Bopara | ||||
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Tests | ODIs | |||
| Matches | 3 | 19 | ||
| Runs scored | 42 | 304 | ||
| Batting average | 8.40 | 30.40 | ||
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 0/1 | ||
| Top score | 34 | 52 | ||
| Balls bowled | 26 | 211 | ||
| Wickets | 1 | 4 | ||
| Bowling average | 81.00 | 43.00 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | n/a | ||
| Best bowling | 1/39 | 2/43 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 1/0 | 7/- | ||
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As of 23 December 2007 |
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Ravinder Singh ("Ravi") Bopara (born 4 May 1985, Forest Gate, Newham, London) is an English cricketer who plays for Essex. Although originally a specialist batsman, he is now improving his medium-pace bowling and developing into an all-rounder, especially in the shorter form of the game. His agile fielding also adds to his worth. He is the second Sikh to play cricket for England, after Monty Panesar.
Bopara made his first-class debut for Essex in May 2002. In 2003 and 2004, he played several matches for England Under-19s, including in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2004.
In the 2005 season, he scored 880 first-class runs, including his first first-class century. He also hit 135 in a non-first-class match against the touring Australians, putting on 270 for the second wicket with Alastair Cook.[1]
In 2006 he was selected for England A in their tour of the West Indies in March, and in matches against the touring Sri Lankans and Pakistanis in the summer of that year. In July, he was selected in England's 30-man provisional squad for the 2006 Champions Trophy.
In January 2007 Kevin Pietersen sustained a rib injury in England's first One Day International against Australia, keeping him out of the remainder of the series. Bopara was called up as his replacement, and made his ODI debut on 2 February. Later that month, he was named in the England squad for the 2007 Cricket World Cup,[2] and he played his second ODI in England's second match of that tournament. In England's match against Sri Lanka, Bopara was named man of the match for his 52 off 53 balls, which brought England to within three runs of victory from a seemingly hopeless position.[3][4] The partnership for the seventh wicket was an English World Cup record and was the second record partnership made by Bopara in the tournament, following his record fifth wicket partnership with Paul Collingwood against Canada.[5] On 30 August he again featured in a prominent tail end partnership, this time with Stuart Broad as the pair added an unbeaten 99 for the 8th wicket to defeat India at Old Trafford. Bopara finished 43 not out.
In June 2007, he made his highest ever first class score, against Northamptonshire striking 229 runs off of 391 balls, including 27 fours, and one six.
He was picked in the squad for the ICC World Twenty20 tournament in September 2007, but was injured and was unable to go.
He made his Test debut in the tour to Sri Lanka in December 2007 but had a poor series, scoring only 42 runs in five innings including three ducks, and taking only one wicket at an average of 81. One BBC commentator described him as "well out of his depth at Test level",[6] and Bopara was subsequently selected in the ODI squad but not the Test squad for the tour to New Zealand in early 2008.[7]
On 4th June 2008, Bopara recorded his highest List A score in the quarter finals of the Friends Provident Trophy. He scored an unbeaten 201 runs off 138 balls, including 18 fours and 10 sixes. [8] Bopara's score was just the eighth instance of a double hundred in the history of List A cricket.
[edit] Images
 Bopara playing against Cambridge UCCE, April 2005 |
[edit] Notes
- ^ This article from Cricinfo gives Bopara's score as 134, but the scorecard from Cricinfo and the scorecard from CricketArchive both say 135.
- ^ Bopara wins place ahead of Loye, Cricinfo, 14 February 2007.
- ^ Scorecard from Cricinfo, retrieved 5 April 2007.
- ^ Match report from the BBC, retrieved 5 April 2007.
- ^ World Cup Partnership Records for England from Cricinfo, retrieved 5 April 2007.
- ^ England series rankings from the BBC Test Match Special blog, retrieved 23 December 2007.
- ^ Prior dropped as Ambrose gets his chance from Cricinfo, retrieved 4 January 2008.
- ^ Cricket Scorecard from BBC Sport, retrieved 4 June 2008.
[edit] References
- Player Profile: Ravinder Bopara from Cricinfo
- Ravinder Bopara from CricketArchive
- The Lowdown — Ravinder Bopara from Cricinfo
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