New Delhi. According to a good news in the morning, former Indian cricketer Vinod Kambli is celebrating his 50th birthday today (Happy Birthday Vinod Kambli). Born on 18 January 1972 in Mumbai, Kambli was once one of the most talented cricketers of the Indian team, but later in his life there were so many controversies that now whenever it comes to him, the disputes with him before earning achievements come to the fore. Huh.
You will be surprised to know that, at the age of 16, Kambli had an unbeaten and excellent partnership of 664 runs with Sachin Tendulkar (15) in the Harris Shield Trophy. In that match Kambli scored 349 runs and Sachin scored 326 runs. But the big thing is that in this match, Kambli also took 6 wickets for 37 runs. Perhaps this was the reason that even Guru Ramakant Achrekar considered Kambli more talented than Sachin. But today Sachin Tendulkar is called the God of Cricket and on the other hand Kambli is counted among the unsuccessful cricketers of India.
It is also true that the fate of Vinod Kambli never favored him. Despite we being old and extremely talented, Tendulkar was making his Ranji debut for Mumbai against Gujarat in 1988, but Kambli had to wait another year for that. In 1989, when Tendulkar was facing the deadly attack of Pakistan with his best batting as a Test player, Vinod Kambli was playing in the Under-19 Youth Cup.
Well then he got a great opportunity to play in Team India by performing brilliantly in domestic cricket. He also started his international career in a very explosive manner. He scored four centuries in his first 7 test matches. Not only this, he is the fastest batsman to score 1000 runs in Test matches. Yes, he was the fastest player to score thousand runs. Only Herbert Sutcliffe, Don Bradman and Neil Hervey were brighter than him. But then their stars went in reverse and a rising sun set before it could shine.
You will also be surprised to know that Vinod Kambli’s average in Tests is much higher than even the legendary batsmen like Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag. At the same time, among the batsmen who have batted in 20 Test innings or more, Kambli has the highest average (54.20).
Although it is also said about Kambli that he could not handle the stardom he had got from the sudden success. Then some of his bad habits and bad behavior made the situation even more out of his hands. It is true that he had come back nine times after being dropped from the team, but he was never able to cement his place.
However, Kambli later alleged that his career was ruined because of his captain, other teammates, selectors and the cricket board. Whatever the reason, it was necessary that if Vinod Kambli wanted, he could have become another pole star of Indian cricket. Who knows then, then we would have had two Gods of cricket.