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• Sandeep Patil is a former Indian cricketer recognized for his elegant model of play. His position within the crew was primarily an aggressive right-handed batter who may additionally bowl medium tempo. He gained the highlight via his efficiency within the check match towards Australia in 1981 the place he scored 174 runs after being hit on his head by Len Pascoe within the previous inning.
  

  Sandeep Patil in motion

• At the beginning of his profession, he was extra of a mistaken foot medium-fast bowler. The first main match he performed was the Rohinton Baria Trophy for Bombay University. In 1975-76, he made his Ranji Trophy debut for the Bombay crew. For three years, he was the irregular member of the facet. However, in 1979, he scored 145 runs within the Ranji Trophy semi-finals. Bombay already misplaced their first 4 wickets for 72 runs. Sandip got here at quantity six and performed aggressively taking Bombay to the finals. The significance of his inning might be estimated from the truth that the subsequent highest rating after his rating was lower than 25. His inning consists of 18 fours and a six. Sandeep then represented Edmonton within the Middlesex league in 1979 and 1980, and Somerset ‘B’ within the succeeding yr.

• India then performed a house collection towards Australia and Pakistan in 1979-80. Sandeep performed tour matches towards each groups representing West Zone. He scored 44 and 23 towards Australia, and 68 and 71 towards Pakistan. These innings helped him to earn his place within the final two check matches towards Pakistan.

• Two weeks earlier than this match, he made his highest first-class rating towards Saurashtra on the Wankhede Stadium. On the second day when he got here out to bat, he was 45 runs not out earlier than lunch. Carrying ahead that inning, he reached his hundred in 139 balls and ended up with the rating of 210 runs off 205 balls together with seven sixes and nineteen fours. His final six cleared the stadium and landed on the hockey stadium close by.

• In the second check match at Eden Gardens, Calcutta (now Kolkata), he made 62 runs. He additionally appeared within the Golden Jubilee Test towards England later following that season.

• He was then chosen for the tour of Australia in 1980-81. Before the check match, he scored 116 runs towards South Australia; a crew comprising of gamers like Rodney Hogg. He then scored 60 and 97 towards Queensland which had a participant like Jeff Thomson. In his debut ODI match, he scored 64 towards Australia and earned the ‘Player of the Match’ award.

• Following that, a check collection was held the place Patil after reaching 65 runs simply earlier than the tea break, was hit on the throat by Hogg. He continued to play after that, however later was he was hit on the appropriate ear by Len Pascoe. After which, he acquired retired harm. However, within the second inning, he batted with an injured head on the insistence of the crew’s captain Sunil Gavaskar which India misplaced by an inning margin.
  

  Sandeep mendacity on the bottom after Len Pascoe bouncer on 2 January 1981 in a match towards Australia at Sydney

• After two weeks, he scored his highest check rating within the second check match towards Australia at Adelaide in January 1981. His rating of 174 runs got here on the time when India misplaced their first 4 wickets on 130 runs. At that point, it was the very best rating by an Indian in Australia which included twenty-two-fours and one-six of Bruce Yardley over mid-wicket. In the subsequent collection, he opened the bowling alongside Kapil Dev towards New Zealand in Auckland in March 1981.

• He was then dropped from the facet after the house collection towards England in 1981-82 however was picked instantly after. In a match at Manchester, he scored his second check hundred. India was in peril of an inning defeat when he added 96 runs together with Kapil Dev. When England took the second new ball, Patil hit Ian Botham for 4 and three within the final two balls of his over. In the subsequent over, he hit Bob Willis for six fours and took the rating from 73 to 104 runs in 9 balls. He remained not out on 129 runs until the top of the play earlier than rain interrupted the match.

• His subsequent hundred got here towards Sri Lanka in September 1982 at Chennai. However, he was dropped from the crew in the midst of the season. Again whereas India was on a tour of the West Indies, Patil hit 121 runs not out in a Ranji ultimate towards Karnataka. Interestingly, all these runs got here within the single session when Bombay was targetting a declaration on the ultimate day.

• In June 1983, the Cricket World Cup began the place Patil scored 216 runs in 8 matches. The spotlight of that collection was his unbeaten 51 runs which he scored towards England within the semis at Manchester. Chasing the rating of 214 runs in 60-overs, Patil got here at quantity 5 and scored that runs in 32 balls which included eight boundaries. In the finals, he scored invaluable 26 runs and helped India to clinch their maiden Cricket World Cup title. Not solely this, however he was additionally within the high 5 amongst main run-getters for India in that World Cup.

• Following that Cup, he scored 609 runs within the 1983-84 Ranji season. His fourth and final worldwide check hundred got here towards Pakistan at Faisalabad in October 1984.
  

  Sandeep Patil enjoying a shot towards England throughout the 1983 World Cup Semis

  

  Sandeep Patil after India victory within the 1983 finals

• In December 1984, he scored invaluable 41 runs towards England in Delhi. However, he was dropped from the subsequent check at Eden Gardens (Kolkata) as a disciplinary measure together with Kapil Dev. He was changed by Mohammad Azharuddin who then scored three centuries in three assessments. In 1986, he was recalled for a number of extra one-day matches.

• Patil introduced his retirement from worldwide cricket in September 1986 after showing towards the Australian at Bombay. But he got here again to captain the Madhya Pradesh facet and scored 185 towards Bombay in 1990.

• Post-retirement, he coached the Indian nationwide crew and India ‘A’ crew. In the 2003 Cricket World Cup, he guided Kenya to the Semi-finals. On 27 September 2012, he served because the chairman of the selectors of the Board of Control for Cricket in India until September 2016.
  

  Sandeep Patil because the coach of Kenya

  

  Sandeep Patil because the Chief Selector of the Indian crew

• Besides his cricket profession, he featured in a Bollywood film ‘Kabhi Ajnabi The’ reverse Poonam Dhillon and Debashree Roy the place he performed the position of a powerful antagonist. This film was provided to him quickly after the 1983 World Cup victory and the film was launched in 1986. However, it grew to become a significant debacle on the field workplace.
  

  ‘Kabhi Ajnabi The’ poster

• He additionally edited the sports activities journal named ‘Ekach Shatkar’ which grew to become a top-selling sports activities journal in Maharashtra.

• On 24 December 2021, a film named ’83’ was launched the place his son Chirag Patil has performed the position of his father.
  

  Chirag Patil as Sandeep Patil in a film ’83’