Ajay Lalcheta

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Ajay Lalcheta
Personal information
Full name
Ajay Vrajlal Lalcheta
Born (1983-10-22) 22 October 1983 (age 40)
Porbandar, Gujarat, India
BattingLeft-handed
Bowling Slow left-arm orthodox
International information
National side
ODI debut(cap  14)18 August 2019 v  Scotland
Last ODI21 August 2019 v  PNG
T20I debut(cap  15)21 November 2015 v  Hong Kong
Last T20I17 February 2019 v  Scotland
Career statistics
Competition T20I T20
Matches918
Runs scored3744
Batting average 18.5022.00
100s/50s0/00/0
Top score1616
Balls bowled213405
Wickets 614
Bowling average 39.8332.50
5 wickets in innings 00
10 wickets in match00
Best bowling1/132/13
Catches/stumpings 3/–4/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 21 August 2019

Ajay Vrajlal Lalcheta (born 22 October 1983) is an Indian-born cricketer who plays for the Oman national cricket team. Lalcheta played underage cricket in India before emigrating to Oman, making his debut for the Omani national side at the 2011 ACC Twenty20 Cup. He played five matches at the 2012 World Twenty20 Qualifier in the United Arab Emirates, which were accorded Twenty20 status.

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Early career

Lalcheta played several seasons for Saurashtra underage representative sides. He is a left-handed batsman and left-arm orthodox spinner. He made his debut for the Saurashtra under-16s in November 1998, aged 15, in the 1998–99 Vijay Merchant Trophy. In that tournament, he scored 187 runs, behind only Mahesh Bhutia (204 runs) for Saurashtra, [1] most of which came in an innings of 87 against the Maharashtra under-16s. [2] Lalcheta went on to play at under-19 and under-22 level for Saurashtra, with his last match in an Indian domestic tournament coming in November 2005, in the C. K. Nayudu Trophy. [3]

Oman career

After emigrating to Oman, Lalcheta made his debut for the national side at the 2011 ACC Twenty20 Cup, where Oman finished third to qualify for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier in the United Arab Emirates. At the ACC Twenty20 Cup, he took eight wickets at an average of 12.00, behind only Aamer Kaleem and Hemal Mehta (10 wickets each) for Oman. [4]

Against Afghanistan, the eventual winner of the tournament, he took 4/13 from 3.3 overs, though the man of the match award went to Afghan Hamid Hassan, who helped bowl Oman out for 77. [5] At the World Twenty20 Qualifier, Oman lost all seven of its group matches to finish bottom of Group B, but defeated Denmark in the 15th-place playoff. [6]

Lalcheta played in only five matches at the tournament – he was first included in the team for its second match, against Uganda, but after playing in the next match, against Kenya, made no further appearances until towards the tournament's end, playing in the final two group matches against Namibia and Ireland, and then in the 15th-place playoff. [7]

Lalcheta bowled 17 overs at the tournament, taking four wickets at an average of 25.25. His best figures, 2/13 from four overs, came against Namibia, and included the wickets of veterans Gerrie Snyman and Nicolaas Scholtz. [8] Only Hemal Mehta (12 wickets), Zeeshan Siddiqui (8), and Rajesh Ranpura (5) took more wickets for Oman at the tournament. [9]

Since the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier, Lalcheta has featured regularly for Oman in ACC and ICC limited-overs tournaments, including the 2013 and 2015 ACC Twenty20 Cups, the 2014 ACC Premier League and the 2013 WCL Division Three and 2014 WCL Division Four tournaments. [3] Notable performances have included 4/22 against Hong Kong in the 2014 ACC Premier League, [10] 5/20 against Singapore in the 2014 WCL Division Four tournament, [11] and a man-of-the-match 36 runs and 3/22 against Saudi Arabia in the 2015 ACC Twenty20 Cup. [12] Lalcheta's 12 wickets in the 2014 WCL Division Four tournament were second only to Malaysia's Sharul Nizam (16 wickets) overall. [13] Against Denmark in that tournament, he ran out Shehzad Ahmed while he was backing up, providing one of the few instances of "Mankading" in an international competition. [14]

International career

He made his Twenty20 International debut for Oman against Hong Kong on 21 November 2015. [15] He was named captain of Oman national cricket team for 2016 ICC World Cricket League Division Five replacing Sultan Ahmed who captained them in 2016 ICC World Twenty20. [16] [17] [18] He made his List A debut for Oman in their three-match series against the United Arab Emirates in October 2016. [19]

In January 2018, he was named in Oman's squad for the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament. [20] In August 2018, he was named in Oman's squad for the 2018 Asia Cup Qualifier tournament. [21]

In December 2018, he was named in Oman's team for the 2018 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup. [22] In July 2019, he was named in Oman's One Day International (ODI) squad for the 2019 Scotland Tri-Nation Series. [23] He made his ODI debut for Oman, against Scotland, on 18 August 2019. [24]

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  1. ↑ Batting and Fielding in Vijay Merchant Trophy 1998/99 (Ordered by Runs) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  2. ↑ Saurashtra Under-16s v Maharashtra Under-16s, Vijay Merchant Trophy 1998/99 (West Zone) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  3. 1 2 Miscellaneous Matches played by Ajay Lalcheta (53) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  4. ↑ Bowling in Asian Cricket Council Twenty20 Cup 2011/12 (Ordered by Wickets) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  5. ↑ Afghanistan v Oman, Asian Cricket Council Twenty20 Cup 2011/12 (Group A) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  6. ↑ ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier 2011/12 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  7. ↑ Twenty20 matches played by Ajay Lalcheta (5)) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  8. ↑ Namibia v Oman, ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier 2011/12 (Group B) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
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  13. ↑ Bowling in ICC World Cricket League Division Four 2014 (Ordered by Wickets) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
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  17. ↑ OOman cricket: Injured Amir Ali out, Noorul Riaz in
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