Sachin Baby
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| Full name | Sachin Baby | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
18 December 1988 Thodupuzha, Kerala, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Thodupuzha Tendulkar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–present | Kerala | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012-2013 | Rajasthan Royals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016-2017 | Royal Challengers Bangalore (squad no. 36) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018-present | Sunrisers Hyderabad (squad no. 18) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: [https://cricketarchive.com/Kerala/Players/166/166275/166275.html[1]] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sachin Baby (born 18 December 1988) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Kerala in domestic cricket.[2] He was born on 18 December 1988 in Adimali of Idukki, Kerala. He is a left-handed batsman who also bowls right-arm off break.
Life and career
On December 11, 1988, the 15-year-old Sachin Tendulkar scored a century on his first-class debut at the Wankhede Stadium. A week later, a baby boy was born in Thodupuzha, Kerala, and his cricket-mad father P.C. Baby named him Sachin.[3]
Unlike Tendulkar, Sachin Baby bats left-handed. He has been a regular member of Kerala's middle order since his debut in 2009, but it took him till his 25th first-class match, in December 2014, to score his first hundred, an unbeaten 200 against Hyderabad.
Consistency in first-class cricket continues to elude Baby, but he has done better in limited-overs cricket, as a List A average in the mid-40s would suggest. He was part of the Rajasthan Royals squad in the 2013 season, though he only got to play one match.
Captain of Kerala's limited-overs side, Sachin Baby scored heavily in the 2012-13 Vijay Hazare Trophy, India's premier domestic 50-over tournament. His century in the quarter-final earned Kerala a place in the final four of the tournament. Baby's penchant for limited-overs cricket earned him a contract with the Rajasthan Royals for IPL 2013. RCB picked him up in the IPL Player Auction 2016.
In January 2018, he was bought by the Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 2018 IPL auction.[4]
IPL Statistics
Batting and fielding
| MAT | NO | RUNS | HS | AVE | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4S | 6S | CT | ST | |
| Career | 15 | 1 | 122 | 33 | 20.33 | 86 | 141.86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| 2016 | 11 | 1 | 119 | 33 | 23.80 | 79 | 150.63 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 2013 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3.00 | 7 | 42.85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
References
- ↑ Sachin Baby. cricketarchive.com
- ↑ This Sachin's making heads turn too. Wisden India (2013-03-03). Retrieved on 2016-01-02.
- ↑ Sachin Baby | India Cricket | Cricket Players and Officials. ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved on 2016-01-02.
- ↑ "List of sold and unsold players". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 January 2018.