Ravi Singh Bopara: English cricket team player Ravi Singh Bopara plays for Northamptonshire. He has also represented the England team at one time. He is a top order batsman and is also a first class bowler. He has performed such feats many times while playing for England, for which he is still remembered. He played such an inning in history in which he scored 201 runs in just 138 balls.
Created chaos in ODI with double century
England player Ravi Bopara has created a stir in ODI cricket while playing for Essex. He has created history by scoring a double century in just 138 balls in ODI cricket format. Let us tell you that while playing for Essex in the year 2008, Bopara played a brilliant inning of 201 runs with the help of 18 fours and 10 sixes against Leicestershire. In this match, with the help of Bopara’s innings, the team won the match by 118 runs.
Also, in this match, he showed his magic not only with the bat but also with the ball. Bopara had bowled 6 overs in this match in which he had taken 2 wickets of the enemy while giving 34 runs.
Bopara’s cricket career
However, Bopara’s cricket career was nothing special. The caliber of player he is, he has not demonstrated that capability in international cricket. He has played a total of 171 international matches for England. In which he has played 13 Test matches, 120 ODI and 38 T20 matches. He has scored 575 runs in Test cricket at an average of 31.94 and in one-day cricket he has scored 2695 runs at an average of 30.62. If we look at his T20 career, he has scored 711 runs in 38 matches at an average of 28.44.
Apart from this, Bopara has played for Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League.
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