Ajit Agarkar Birthday: Team India’s Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar is celebrating his 47th birthday today (4th December). Ajit Agarkar, born on 4 December 1977 in ‘Mayanagari’ Mumbai, is counted among the brilliant bowlers of Indian cricket. However, the reason behind this is a special advice from ‘Master Blaster’ Sachin Tendulkar. After this Agarkar earned a lot of name in world cricket. Today, on the occasion of Ajit Agarkar’s birthday, let us know some special things related to him.
Studied from Sachin’s school
Born in Mumbai, Agarkar also did his schooling from Mumbai. He has studied from Shardashram Vidyamandir. It is noteworthy that ‘God of Cricket’ Sachin Tendulkar has also studied in this school. Agarkar was given cricket training by Sachin Tendulkar’s coach Ramakant Achrekar.
Agarkar was a batsman in the beginning
Ajit is counted among the brilliant bowlers, although you will be surprised to know that his cricket career started as a batsman. Initially he was a batsman. He also represented India in the Under-17 World Cup and Under-19 World Cup. He has also played a century innings in the Under-19 World Cup.
Sachin’s advice changed Agarkar’s fate
Ajit, who used to bat in the middle order, suddenly emerged as a fast bowler. Sachin Tendulkar is said to be behind this. Once Ajit bowled to Sachin in Mumbai’s Kaga League. Impressed by his bowling, Sachin inspired him to pay more attention to bowling and emphasized on showing his attitude with the ball. Agarkar also accepted this statement of Tendulkar and never looked back.
Agarkar’s special records
Ajit’s ODI debut was in India against Australia. In this series, he expressed his intentions by taking 10 wickets. He went on to become the fastest Indian bowler to take 50 ODI wickets. After this he also achieved the feat of taking the fastest 250 wickets for India. Not only this, Ajit is the Indian to score the fastest half-century in ODI cricket. In the year 2000, he scored a fifty in just 21 balls against Zimbabwe. Ajit has also scored a century at ‘Lord’s’, which is called the ‘Mecca of Cricket’. He scored 109 runs in the Test against England (2002). Ajit played a total of 191 ODIs in his career and took 288 wickets. Whereas he has 58 wickets in his name in 26 tests.