Salim Durani (1934-2006) was an Indian Test cricket player. He passed away on April 2, 2023, after a battle with cancer.
Wiki/Biography
Salim Aziz Durani was born in Afghanistan on Tuesday, December 11, 1934 (age 88; death). When Salim started playing cricket, he used to play the ball with both hands. He was once a left-arm medium-fast bowler and a right-arm off-spinner. His father, who was also his first cricket coach, did not advocate bowling with two hands and sought advice from Venu Mankad; Venu suggested that Salim be allowed to bowl only left-handed and tied from behind His right hand to improve his left arm spin bowling. Later, he was selected for the school team to compete in the intercollegiate Hill Shield tournament.
appearance
Height (approximately): 6′2″
Weight (approximately): 55kg
Hair Color: Salt and Pepper
Eye color: blue
family and caste
He belongs to a Pathan family from Jamnagar, Gujarat.
Parents and siblings
His parents and grandfather were from Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to Jamnagar, Gujarat in the early 1930s; his sister and her husband moved to Bangladesh. His father’s name is Abdul Aziz Durrani. He is a cricketer and coach. His mother’s name is unknown. Salim Durani has two sisters, Meenu and Nigar, and a brother, Jahangir Durani. Nigar was a teacher at St. Ann’s High School in Jamnagar, Gujarat. Abdul Aziz played several unofficial Test matches for India as a wicketkeeper between 1935 and 1936; he also played for Sind and Nawanagar in the Ranji Trophy between 1932 and 1938 Keepers and batsmen. The then Jam Sahib, Sir Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja, was impressed with Aziz Durani’s wicketkeeping and batting performance for the Nawanagar team during the Ranji Trophy. Visited Karachi in 1935 and offered him a job as Deputy Inspector. In 1947, after the partition of India, his father left him and his family and moved to Karachi where he lived for the rest of his life. Later, Aziz Durrani became a cricket coach and trained many cricketers including Pakistani player Hanif Mohammad.
wife
Some reports indicate that he is not married; however, in an interview, he revealed that he is married. His wife’s name is unknown.
religion
Salim Durani believes in Islam.
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Salim Durrani’s autograph
Profession
Movie
In 1969, he starred in the Bollywood film “Ek Masoom”. Later, he played the male lead opposite Parveen Babi in the Hindi film Charitra (1973).
Stills of Salim Durani from the Hindi film Charitra
cricket
Domestic
Salim Durani represents Saurashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Central Region in domestic competitions. In 1949, due to his outstanding performance in the school team, he was selected for the All Saurashtra Inter-School Championship. Later, he was named in the government school team for the All-India Inter-School Championship in Calcutta (1949); this was Salim’s first match at Eden Gardens and he won every innings of the match Took six wickets. He then led the team to victory in an invitational tournament in Rajkot, Gujarat; he took 6 wickets and scored 41 runs in the match. Yusuf Farid, the then Mumbai coach and cricket coach of Anjuman-I-Islam High School, was also in the audience and noticed Durrani’s talent. Yusuf suggested that Salim accompany him to Mumbai to play for the Anjuman-I-Islam High School team in the Harris Shield tournament; the cricketer accepted the offer and played for the Anjuman-I-Islam High School team in the Harris Shield tournament. Shield Championship.
Photos of Salim Durani’s six
In his first game after moving to Mumbai, Durrani scored 23 runs and took 3 wickets in a Kangal League match against CCI; it was his first time playing on a turf wicket . He made his debut for Saurashtra in December 1953 in a Ranji Trophy match against Gujarat at the Commerce College Stadium in Ahmedabad. Scored 108 points; the following season, he left Saurashtra to join Gujarat and played for them between 1954 and 1956. In 1956, he joined Rajasthan and played for them from 1956 to 1978. Salim was part of the Central District team that won their championship. The Duleep Trophy was won for the first time in the 1971-1972 season. In 1978, he announced his retirement from domestic cricket; in his 25-year first-class cricket career, he scored 8545 runs, including 14 centuries, and took 484 wickets.
international
test
Salim Durani made his Test debut against Australia in Bombay on January 1, 1960; he was 24 when he made his Test debut. In 1961, Salim was selected for the India team for the series against England (1961-1962); he took eight wickets in the first match at Kolkata and the next at the Corporation Stadium in Chennai Ten wickets were taken in the match. The Indian team won a historic 2-0 victory over the visiting team, and Durrani’s outstanding performance was widely praised by the media. He scored his first hundred against the West Indies at Port of Spain in 1962; he scored 104 runs and took three wickets against them. Durrani was dropped from the Indian team in January 1967 and was not included in the Test squad until January 1971; some reports suggest that there were some problems between him and the selectors, who preferred others to him.
Salim Durani plays for India
In March 1971, after success on the domestic cricket circuit, he was named to the Test squad for the series against the West Indies; he dismissed Clive Lloyd and Gary Sobers and Played an important role in India’s first victory over the West Indies. Although Salim performed well on the West Indies tour, he was dropped after the third Test against the West Indies and was not selected for the 1971 tour of England. In 1972, he was selected for the Test series against England (1972-1973) and scored a half-century in the second innings; India won that match and drew level with the visitors (1-1). In the third game of the series, he scored 38 runs per innings; however, he injured his knee and was ruled out of the fourth Test match. He played in India’s final Test match against England in Bombay in February 1973; he scored 73 in the first innings and 37 in the second as India won the five-match series 2-1 race. In an international Test career that spanned 13 years, Salim played 29 matches for India. He scored 1,202 runs, including 7 fifties and 1; he also took 75 wickets, including 3 five-wickets.
Awards
- 2011: CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award
die
He passed away on April 2, 2023, after a battle with cancer.
.@SunRisers & @rajasthanroyals Match officials observed a moment of silence to pay tribute to the late Salim Durrani. pic.twitter.com/alTAAhauoK
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 2, 2023
Favorites
- Cricketer: Sir Frank Worrell
- Cricket Stadium: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai
Facts/Trivia
- He was the first cricketer to win the Arjuna Award; he made his international debut in 1960 and won the award the following year.
Salim Durani only played 29 Tests, but his impact went far beyond that! He is the ultimate entertainer in Indian cricket and is known for hitting sixes on demand.
Thank you for all the memories, sir! ❤️ #tribute #indiancricketer #RIP pic.twitter.com/xOC1LI4rpJ
— The Better India (@thebetterindia) April 3, 2023
- Salim is affectionately known as Prince Salim and Shahzada Salim by fans and teammates.
- He is the only Indian Test cricketer born in Afghanistan and the first Afghan-born cricketer to play Test cricket.
- Some reports state that Durrani was born in Kabul, Afghanistan; however, he has refuted this claim in multiple interviews, stating that his mother traveled to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, British India, on her way from Kabul to Karachi. province (now part of Pakistan) gave birth to him.
- During the 1971 tour of the West Indies, he revealed that he would take the wickets of Clive Lloyd and Gary Sobers, and in the next game, he dismissed Sobers, While Clive Lloyd was caught by Wadekar for 15 runs.
- Sunil Gavaskar made his debut during the 1971 West Indies tour. In an interview, when he was asked about Gavaskar, he said,
I think Gavaskar is like a son to me and one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He is so technically perfect. He was also a clever captain.”
- Salim was not included in the XI for the fourth Test against England in Kanpur; spectators criticized the selectors’ decision to bench Salim and booed the home team, with placards plastered across the stadium It was filled with “No Salim, No Test” posters and placards. Salim was included in the eleven for the next match, his last appearance for the national team.
- All eight of Durrani’s overseas Test matches have been in the West Indies.
Salim Durani was a talented batsman who could drive the ball to boundaries in an era when few batsmen attempted to hit fours and sixes.
For example, during the tour match against West Indies, there were batsmen in the team but no one could hit the ball out of bounds.
The ball was hit eight times… pic.twitter.com/O0BSaBMdAO
— Shams Ur Rehman Alavi ômû (@indscribe) April 2, 2023
- The Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) offered him a position in the coaching staff with a salary of Rs. 50,000 in 1983; however, he rejected the offer.
- Former India captain Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi called him a difficult player to control and often criticized Salim for his lack of focus.
- In 2018, BCCI invited Salim Durani to play in the opening day of the India vs Afghanistan Test match in Bangalore; this was Afghanistan’s first Test match.
Salim Durani presents souvenir to Asghar Stanikzai ahead of first Test match in Afghanistan
- He used to drink heavily and smoke regularly; he quit smoking in 2020.
- In January 2023, he fell at home and underwent proximal femoral intramedullary nail surgery.
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