Among 331 players who represented India in International cricket, 33 have appeared in England’s County Championship for various teams. Bharath Seervi lists those players along with their career statistics in the County Championship.
With the late advent of Durham, County Championship has involved 18 teams consisting of players across all the cricketing countries. Over the years since India played its first test match in 1932 there have been Indian players who played in the County Championship. Many of them had a short career of two or three seasons (barring a few exceptions).
Most of the Indians played for a single county (though some of them have played for more as well). The tables below list the players who played International cricket for India as well as County Championship. The list is sorted in the order of the period from earliest to oldest.
List of Indian Cricketers who played in County Championship:
– Kartik has represented the most number of county teams: Middlesex, Lancashire, Somerset and Surrey.
– Engineer has played the most matches in County cricket. He played 164 matches, all for Lancashire, from 1968 to 1976. Bedi is the only other Indian to have appeared in over 100 County Championship matches (102).
County Championship career statistics of Indian Cricketers:
Batting:
Player
Matches
Innings
Not-outs
Runs
Average
50s
100s
HS
Farokh Engineer
164
249
36
5549
26.05
22
4
141
Ravi Shastri
60
95
16
3296
41.72
19
6
157
MAK Pataudi
82
142
13
2874
22.27
14
1
101
Mohammad Azharuddin
29
52
4
2485
51.77
10
8
212
Nawab of Pataudi Sr
33
56
6
2380
47.6
10
6
231*
Kapil Dev
40
64
10
2312
42.81
14
4
120
Dinesh Mongia
26
41
4
1754
47.4
8
5
165
Murali Karthik
60
82
22
1356
22.6
6
0
65*
VVS Laxman
16
24
4
1237
61.85
6
6
135
Abdul Kardar
39
59
7
1198
23.03
3
1
112
Abbas Ali Baig
23
42
4
1154
30.36
7
0
99
Sourav Ganguly
21
33
2
1101
35.51
9
1
142
Sachin Tendulkar
16
25
2
1070
46.52
7
1
100
Rahul Dravid
16
24
3
1039
49.47
8
1
137
Bishan Bedi
102
116
32
935
11.13
1
0
61
Manoj Prabhakar
17
31
3
896
32
5
1
101
Srinivas Venkataraghavan
40
64
16
812
16.91
1
0
51
Sunil Gavaskar
14
22
2
664
33.2
2
2
155*
Anil Kumble
32
39
6
516
15.63
1
0
56
Virender Sehwag
6
10
0
478
47.8
1
2
137
Piyush Chawla
10
16
3
437
33.61
0
2
112
Javagal Srinath
23
36
7
436
15.03
1
0
52
Mohammad Kaif
9
17
0
388
22.82
1
0
87
Dilip Doshi
73
81
28
341
6.43
0
0
35
Harbhajan Singh
15
15
3
264
22
1
0
84
Gautam Gambhir
5
7
0
239
34.14
0
1
106
Zaheer Khan
17
22
7
163
10.86
0
0
30*
Yuvraj Singh
7
12
2
145
14.5
1
0
56
Irfan Pathan
3
4
2
126
63
1
0
68
Sreesanth
5
7
2
74
14.8
0
0
30*
RP Singh
2
4
0
28
7
0
0
25
Ajit Agarkar
3
4
2
27
13.5
0
0
22
Pragyan Ojha
4
5
3
12
6
0
0
5*
– Engineer has scored the most runs (5,549 in164 matches at 26.05 ) among all Indian cricketers.
– Azhar has the best batting average (51.77) among players who played 20 or more matches.
– Azhar (8) has scored the most centuries, while the most half centuries have been scored by Engineer (22).
– Pataudi Sr has the highest individual score (231*). The only other double centurion is Azhar.
Bowling & Fielding:
Player
Matches
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
Average
5WI
BBI
C
Bishan Bedi
102
3595.3
1180
8340
394
21.16
23
7-34
31
Dilip Doshi
73
2888
783
7891
246
32.07
8
6-67
13
Murali Karthik
60
2144.3
555
5439
220
24.72
13
6-21
50
Anil Kumble
32
1538.1
431
3694
169
21.85
12
8-100
18
Srinivas Venkataraghavan
40
1483.2
324
4257
154
27.64
9
7-100
42
Javagal Srinath
23
832
200
2448
123
19.9
7
9-76
8
Kapil Dev
40
998
261
2729
103
26.49
2
5-30
40
Abdul Kardar
39
1312
459
2743
103
26.63
5
5-25
29
Ravi Shastri
60
1282.4
333
3172
90
35.24
3
7-49
31
Zaheer Khan
17
645.2
134
2369
79
29.98
5
9-138
4
Harbhajan Singh
15
647.5
163
1634
70
23.34
4
6-36
15
Piyush Chawla
10
464.3
85
1434
53
27.05
6
6-52
3
Manoj Prabhakar
17
579.1
163
1439
51
28.21
1
7-65
9
Dinesh Mongia
26
281.5
69
759
18
42.16
0
2-8
9
Sreesanth
5
109.3
21
418
13
32.15
1
5-93
3
Ajit Agarkar
3
93.3
20
323
10
32.3
1
5-81
2
Sourav Ganguly
21
157.4
23
571
9
63.44
0
3-68
12
RP Singh
2
60.4
14
250
8
31.25
0
3-62
2
Irfan Pathan
3
89
13
324
5
64.8
0
4-81
1
Sachin Tendulkar
16
62.3
10
195
4
48.75
0
2-35
10
Rahul Dravid
16
53.5
11
128
4
32
0
2-16
13
Pragyan Ojha
4
150.4
52
311
4
12.95
1
6-8
0
Mohammad Azharuddin
29
71.4
9
257
3
85.66
0
1-35
28
Yuvraj Singh
7
34.3
5
130
3
43.33
0
1-8
12
Nawab of Pataudi Sr
33
54
2
239
2
119.5
0
1-19
20
VVS Laxman
16
18
5
41
1
41
0
1-13
22
Mohammad Kaif
9
11.2
1
64
1
64
0
1-21
5
Abbas Ali Baig
23
13
5
22
1
22
0
1-1
13
Virender Sehwag
6
34.2
4
153
0
0
0
0
4
Sunil Gavaskar
14
14.2
2
69
0
0
0
0
5
MAK Pataudi
82
9.5
2
43
0
0
0
0
60
Farokh Engineer
164
4
1
10
0
0
0
0
406
+31s
Gautam Gambhir
5
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
4
– Bedi has the most wickets (394) among Indian cricketers. Doshi (246) and Kartik (220) are the others with 200 wickets in county cricket.
– Bedi also has most five-wicket hauls (23) among all Indians.
– Srinath has the best bowling average among the players who played at least 20 county matches – 19.9.
– Best bowling figures in an innings is 9 for 76 by Srinath. Zaheer is the other bowler to have taken a 9-wicket haul in county cricket (9 for 138).
Note: Players from Indian origin who played in County Championship but not for India are not included in the list of players above. Players like Ranjitsinhji and Duleepsinhji are not included.
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