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Full name Ravinder Singh Bopara
Born May 4, 1985, Forest Gate, London
Current age 23 years 156 days
Major teams England,England Lions,England Under-19s,Essex,Essex Cricket Board,Marylebone Cricket Club
Nickname Puppy
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Height
5 ft 10 in
Education Brampton Manor School
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
3
5
0
42
34
8.40
73
57.53
0
0
7
0
1
0
ODIs
28
24
7
459
58
27.00
687
66.81
0
2
46
0
10
0
T20Is
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
0
0
First-class
79
130
18
4572
229
40.82
8641
52.91
10
19
53
0
List A
116
107
27
2849
201*
35.61
4
16
33
0
Twenty20
34
26
3
511
83
22.21
419
121.95
0
2
55
8
8
0
Bowling averages
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Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
3
4
156
81
1
1/39
1/39
81.00
3.11
156.0
0
0
0
ODIs
28
12
235
198
4
2/43
2/43
49.50
5.05
58.7
0
0
0
T20Is
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
79
6001
3946
90
5/75
43.84
3.94
66.6
2
1
0
List A
116
2394
2187
77
4/52
4/52
28.40
5.48
31.0
1
0
0
Twenty20
34
23
410
524
23
3/18
3/18
22.78
7.66
17.8
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
Sri Lanka v England at Kandy, Dec 1-5, 2007 scorecard
Last Test
Sri Lanka v England at Galle, Dec 18-22, 2007 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Australia v England at Sydney, Feb 2, 2007 scorecard
Last ODI
England v South Africa at Leeds, Aug 22, 2008 scorecard
ODI statistics
Only T20I
England v New Zealand at Manchester, Jun 13, 2008 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut
2002
Last First-class
Gloucestershire v Essex at Bristol, Sep 24-27, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2002
Last List A
Kent v Essex at Canterbury, Sep 13, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
Surrey v Essex at East Molesey, Jun 14, 2003 scorecard
Last Twenty20
Essex v Kent at Southampton, Jul 26, 2008 scorecard
Profile
Aged 17, Bopara earned a professional contract with Essex in 2002, and he has never looked back. He made his first-team debut the same year, playing three Championship matches before playing for England at the Under-19 World Cup in 2003. A top-order batsman, he can also chip in with some handy medium-pace bowling and he has been maturing with every match.
Bopara, who is nicknamed Puppy, was a late selection for the England A squad in West Indies in 2006, after injuries in England's senior squad left spots to fill. Although unsuccessful in the Caribbean he found form on the county scene and was subsequently rewarded with a place in England's preliminary squad for the 2006 Champions Trophy and the Academy squad to be based in Perth during the winter's Ashes series. After impressing the selectors, he made his ODI debut against Australia at Sydney, and claimed the wicket of Mike Hussey to help England kick-start their trophy-winning campaign with a 92-run win. A fortnight later in the World Cup, showed impressive resolve and class in his maiden one-day fifty against Sri Lanka, albeit in a losing cause. He was one of only a handful of England players to emerge from that tournament with their reputation enhanced, but injury prevented him from building on his success in the World Twenty20. Another encouraging display for England in their one-day series against Sri Lanka in October 2007 led to his call-up to the Test squad for December's series, and he was picked to make his Test debut in the opening match at Kandy ahead of Owais Shah. It was, on reflection, a tour too soon for Bopara who scratched 42 runs in three Tests, and was axed the following January. He has remained around the one-day squad and was part of the Test party again after Michael Vaughan resigned the captaincy, although didn't make the final eleven against South Africa at The Oval. Andrew Miller August 2008
Notes
NBC Denis Compton Award 2007 Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketers of the Year 2008
