Ravi Bopara

Country: England
Date of Birth: May 4, 1985
Place of Birth: Forest Gate, London
Batting Style: Right Handed
Bowling Style: Right-arm medium
Skill: All Rounder
Teams Played: England, Kings XI Punjab

Batting Performance

	M	Inn	No	Runs	HS	100s	50s	Avg	SR
Tests	12	17	1	553	143	3	0	34.56	53.9
ODI	69	65	12	1560	96	0	6	29.43	74.64
T20s	16	14	2	258	55	0	1	21.5	94.51
IPL	15	14	1	386	84	0	3	29.69	115.92

Bowling & Fielding Performance

	M	Overs	Runs	Mdns	Wkts	Avg	Best	Econ
Tests	12	54.2	212	9	1	212	1/39	3.91
ODI	69	109.5	570	7	13	43.85	4/38	5.21
T20s	16	13.4	78	1	8	9.75	4/10	5.82
IPL	15	14.2	132	0	5	26.4	3/31	9.3

Career Performance

	First Match	Last Match
Tests	December 1, 2007 v Sri Lanka at Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy	August 18, 2011 v India at The Oval, London
ODIs	February 2, 2007 v Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), Sydney	October 25, 2011 v India at Eden Gardens, Kolkata
T20s	June 13, 2008 v New Zealand at Old Trafford, Manchester	October 29, 2011 v India at Eden Gardens, Kolkata
IPL	April 19, 2009 v Delhi Daredevils at Newlands, Cape Town	April 7, 2010 v Rajasthan Royals at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

Profile

Ravi Bopara is a right-handed English batsman who rose through the ranks at the under-19 level. After Monty Panesar, he is the second Sikh to play for England. His started his international journey through one-day games and impressed everybody with some remarkable knocks during the 2007 World Cup. An aggressive batsman by nature, Bopara is also capable of playing steadily in a crisis situation. Genuinely a specialist batsman, the Sikh has also improved a lot with his medium-pace bowling skills. He is also an athletic fielder in the outfield. He will be best remembered for his fighting innings of 52 runs against Sri Lanka in the 2007 World Cup. In June that year, he registered his highest first-class score of 229 runs against Northamptonshire. This proved his ability to play the longest format of the game as well. Injury ruled him out of the inaugural World Twenty20 that year, although he was selected to be part of that squad. He was finally called into the Test team for the tour to Sri Lanka in December 2007 but had a poor series and was subsequently dropped. Though he had not come to terms with the Test format at the highest level, he was still a brisk scorer in one-day internationals. This was proved when he scored 201 runs off 138 balls in the quarter-finals of the Friends Provident Trophy; this was only the eighth instance of a double century in the history of List A cricket. He was selected as part of the England squad to play in the Stanford Super Series in Antigua, where England lost the $1 million prize money to the Stanford All Stars. However, his form was enough for the selectors to hand him an Increment Contract. In early 2009, Bopara was bought by IPL franchise Kings XI Punjab and again his brisk-scoring ways helped the side achieve much success in the early stages of the tournament. After an impressive ton in the warm-up game, he was selected to play the fourth Test against West Indies. He scored three consecutive first innings tons in that series becoming only the fifth England player to do so. He was then selected to play his first Ashes series but could not make it count in the first two Tests.