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154. Salim Durani



Personal information
Batting styleLeft-hand bat
Bowling styleSlow left-arm orthodox
International information
National sideIndian
Career statistics
CompetitionTestsFirst-class
Matches29170
Runs scored12028545
Batting average25.0433.37
100s/50s1/714/45
Top score104137*
Balls bowled644628130
Wickets75484
Bowling average35.4226.09
5 wickets in innings321
10 wickets in match12
Best bowling6/738/99
Catches/stumpings14/-144/4


Salim Aziz Durani (born December 11, 1934, Kabul, Afghanistan) is a former Indian cricketer who played in 29 Tests from 1960 to 1973. An allrounder, Durani was a slow left-arm orthodox bowler and a big hitting left-handed batsman and famous for his six hitting prowess. He is the only Test cricketer to have been born in Afghanistan.
Durani was the hero of India's series victory against England in 1961-62. He took 8 and 10 wickets in their wins at Calcutta and Madras respectively. Also, a decade later he was instrumental in India's victory against West Indies at Port of Spain having taken wickets of Clive Lloyd and Gary Sobers.










NIGHT OF LEGENDS: Former Indian Test cricketer Salim Aziz Durani with Sachin Tendulkar during the BCCI Awards 2009-2010 function in Mumbai on May 31, 2011. Former Test all-rounder Salim Durani received the C K Nayudu award, named after another former India skipper, for his lifetime contribution to the Cricket. Durani represented India from 1960 to 1973.


Shashank Manohar, President of The Board of Control for cricket in India (BCCI), presents the Lifetime Achievement Award to former Indian Test cricketer Salim Aziz Durani during the BCCI Awards 2009-2010 ceremony in Mumbai on May 31, 2011. Former Test all-rounder Salim Durani received the CK Nayudu award, named after another former India skipper, for his lifetime contribution to the game in India.


NIGHT OF A LEGEND: Former Indian Test cricketer Salim Aziz Durani speaks after receiving his award during the BCCI Awards 2009-2010 function in Mumbai on May 31, 2011. Former Test all-rounder Salim Durani received the C K Nayudu award, named after another former India skipper, for his lifetime contribution to the Cricket. Durani represented India from 1960 to 1973.







In his 50 Test innings he only made just the one century, 104 against the West Indies in 1962. He played for teams Gujarat, Rajasthan and Saurashtra in first class cricket. He made 14 hundreds in first class cricket in which he managed 8545 runs at 33.37. He has the distinction of the only cricketer that will respond and deliver with consistency, a demand of hitting a six from the crowd. The crowd would cheer "We want Sixer " and Durrani would hit one. Durrani had a special rapport with the spectators, who once agitated, when he was inexplicably dropped from the team for Kanpur Test in 1973, with placards and slogans like ``No Durrani, no Test.
Popular with the public, he appeared in a film "Charithra" with Parveen in 1973. He was the first crickter to win Arjuna award. He was awarded the C K Nayadu Lifetime Achievement Award by the BCCI in 2011.

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